Mal Pais Surf Camp

We went to mal Pais for a few days. We partied alot at this time.  We rented a 4 wheeler which was later confiscated.  We stayed at Mal Pais Surf ...

... of a day and we finished up in a place called Mal Pais which is a beach, pretty good for surfing. First night we stayed in Mal Pais surf camp in a cabin type thing which was ok. Luckily they only had room for us to stay one night so we ended up moving to ...

... hostel in town because of the Manifesto Gathering (a big hippie gathering with lots of beach parties) so we ended up at the Mal Pais surf club. The only thing they had available was a villa that overlooked the pool. It was a little out of our ...

Day 2 at Mal Pais surf club:    Our room was absolutely amazing because there were so many fans that we were all freezing at night and that NEVER happens! We spent the morning at the beach and we all got absolutely fried!! Serves us right for ...

... week. adidas people, let Matt Wilks know I randomly bumped into Jeremy (the All Blacks xbox game guy) in the surf here, that was very random for sure... In Mal Pais I met a good geeza from London who was keen on a bit of surfing so from there we got on ...

... getting some nice 'surf rashes' from rubbing on the board.  So we've ended up staying another nite in Mal Pais....moved to another hotel, next to the surf shop and best surf, bought some surf shorts and hired the board for 24 hrs to catch some more ...

... are two towns right next to each other along one main road. They are relatively indistinguishable from each other. Mal Pais caters to a slightly more affluent crowd, [there are a lot of yoga retreats and ...

... surf as we made our way down to the beach bar at Playa Carmen. Playa Carmen is at the T intersection that divides Santa Teresa from Mal Pais so we go by it every day but have not stopped at it before yesterday. The beer was very cold and they have a ...

... are renting a place here for about a month.  anyways, my first night here there was a huge party just down the road in mal pais. it was a lot of fun. basically everyone from my hostel went plus tons of other people. it was all outside, at this ...

... day we went for a swim and just took the boogie boards and ourselves rather than toting along a lot of gear and setting up a base camp. There is something to be said for traveling light. Because we had no belongings on the beach that we needed to guard we ...

Waking up early is a difficult task. Therefore I took the bus that leaves San Jose in the light and arrives at Mal Pais and Santa Teresa in the dark rather than being able to leave in the dark early morning and arriving in the day light. The ferry over ...

... declared a national park and thus prohibiting buildings within 75 metres of the high tide, which is great. I found Playa Grande surf camp www.playagrandesurfcamp.com pretty easy and met the owner Gerry who was a great guy. I checked into my ...

... bus handle for dear life as we seem to slide more like a rollercoaster down the pot holes and hills, arrive in Mal Pais - no one from the camp is there....oh ohhhhh, 10pm and tropical rain pouring - however a man with a flash looking taxi luckily drives ...

... ", we will see. Everybody is keen and we will make a decision as to who gets our money after we get back from the surf camp down in Mal Pais. We will need to get in the car for that trip. We walked down to the main intersection, this morning that ...

... my monthly exercise a few laps up and down the coast and its time to go shopping for flip flops! Wednesday and its on to Mal Pais, which literally means bad country, but its supposed to be nice! As we sat having ice cream watching the surf we saw ...