Montezuma Pacific Hotel
Travel Blogs from Montezuma
Of hippies, rastas and wildlife
We decided to enjoy our last days in Costa Rica in Montezuma, a small town at the Gulf of Nicoya. This town seems to be heaven for all kinds of people. On the street you see hippies, rastas, standard tourists and a few locals. Almost every second person is tattooed and many restaurants have veggie options on their menu. There's even an (almost) all …
MonteZOOma
... a year which most of the time you couldn't take consecutively. Another couple was from Sicily, and I forgot how much I loved the Italians. They spoke passionately about their home island and the beautiful playas...holding their fingers to their lips and kissing them....ballisimo! Other then the lovely beach and good company we made friends with a bush pig called Regina. So friendly, she trotted along to you and loved a pat on the belly and a few little scraps from lunch. ...
Pura Vida
... to fill their pipe there too. The shops do have some more interesting items, clothing and souvenirs and one very nice jewelry shop but you had to ring a bell to get in which put me off. It was a good reminder to keep our guard up though. If you are going to Montezuma for souvenirs you are out of luck but you will have plenty to choose from at the airport. But if you are coming to Montezuma to find Pura Vida, you are in the right ...
Breakfast with the wildlife
... to someone at home. She hadn’t seen the bird steal the sugar but was soon being sprinkled with sugar from above as the bird tore open the packet. She squealed and it can only be imagined how she explained to the folks at home what was happening.
The tide was out as we walked along the beach on Sunday morning and it looked much more attractive than it had at high tide the previous afternoon. They are suffering an unusually ...
Beautiful Nicoya Peninsula
... I went on my own so unfortunately did not bring my camera, but suffice to say that, with sufficient effort swimming into the current, and ingenuity in climbing the remarkably unslippery rocks, I could get behind the falls and sit under them enjoying a free natural water massage! Given that this was Xmas Day, a large group of people showed up later and I persuaded many of them to paddle paddle paddle and get behind the falls. I think we had a total of ...