Playa Negra Guesthouse Cahuita

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Dia de excursiones compuesto por el Tour Bri Bri y la visita al Parque Nacional Cahuita.

El Parque Nacional Cahuita tiene dos entradas, con lo que hacer el recorrido de 8 KM entrando por una y saliendo por ...

... While we were waiting we went for breakfast around the corner at a 'soda' (cheap no frills café) where we had eggs, juice and 'pinto' (rice cooked with beans and onion) which was both hearty and nutritious, and cheap, coming in at about 3 dollars each. We walked to the Market where we enjoyed some fine Costa Rican coffee, wandered through the stalls and wandered like jetlagged zombies back to the hostel to wait for our room to be vacated. We were so out of if that ...

... And then you hear the millions of Americans half-way up the road. Nightmare. I would say, one to skip. So, I headed back to the hostel and did not enjoy myself. Spring Break mentality was ruling everyone and is getting rather annoying. I did, however, experience an earthquake! I was eating my lunch when the bench started bouncing a little, and the the world starting rocking to and fro and the wall creaked a little. I was rather confused and didn't realise what was going on ...

... drive, up through the mountains to Turrialba where river rafting is a big tourist pull. They have Class 5 rapids so apparently it's a big rafting place. The clouds were hanging very low and it was raining and misting off and on. The van was packed with a mom, grandma and georgous little 1 1/2 year old girl and 3 other tourists. Tourists aren't very friendly here in CR, actually. They sort of keep to themselves, which is fine, just ...

... slugt en hel del vand, men efter en times tid gik det bedre. Den sidste time smuttede drengene og så kunne vi øve videre selv. Jeg var virkelig dårlig til det, og når jeg endelig kom op at stå, blev jeg slynget af med det samme igen :) Så der skal øves! Men det var sjovt. Dagen efter havde jeg ondt overalt i kroppen, det er rigtig hårdt for armene, fordi man skal padle stærkt når der kommer en bølge. Opdatering på surfing følger, kryds fingre for at jeg ikke ...

... couldn't believe how good they were. There was a younger girl, probably the little sister of one of the performers, who was also dressed in the traditional long skirt and frilly blouse (but not the same style as the dancers) who kept trying to join them "on stage," and finally one of the girls led her by the shoulders into the cluster. Her bedazzled smile was priceless. I was glad I had my sunglasses with me, because I had tears in my eyes. On the way back ...

We arrived at Puerto Viejo yesterday. The last night in Cahuita included Massage Man (who was obsessed with natasha) talk constantly about energies and how he wanted to wake up natasha to change her energy, which also meant that he wanted to sleep with her. We played truth or dare, Massage Man was dared to thrust around the road outside the bar. Directly opposite the bar is a bench for all the drunk ...

... netting....though I must say, after the night, I wasn´t as enthousiastic as I was to the idea of sleeping in a hammock. The three of us joined up with Patricia´s friends and company at Punta Cahuita (about 4 km walk from the Cahuita entrance).... I ended up hanging out with a big group of spanish....there were like 9 of us...8 spanish and me... listening to them speak is nothing like listen to the latin americans speak.....it was bullet train fast...but it was ...

Early morning yet again...this time to get to the airport on time to meet Steffi and pick up the rental car. The airport of San Juan is only about 12kms away but traffic is terrible at rush hour so it takes around 40 minutes to get from the centre to there (although very cheaply on the bus $750 colones for 2 = $1.25 Dollars). As it goes with perfect German synchronicity, Steffi just arrived and came out of the customs area when we walked ...

... beach around the point in the National park. By 11am it cleared up enough and we decided it was still worth the trip. We headed up the path and were greeted by a friendly monkey (that was being fed by some locals actually) but took the change for a close up photo moment... We continued along the path, sheltered by the trees, the sea on our left the jungle on our right. Eventually we came to a lagoon area ...