Beach times in CR

The next destination was called Mal Pais which we absolutely loved. The beach here is just so beautiful and there was a big surf competition here and a miss bikini contest of latin america (james idea to go) so we decided to stay there for a whole week instead of 3 days! 

For the first 3 nights we stayed here in a place called Cuesta Arriba. We stayed in dorms of 4 beds. Really cool and sociable place. The first night we stayed with a couple from Switzerland who were both nice and we went to dinner with them down the road but they left early the next morning. The second day though we stayed with 2 really nice girls, one from canada and one from switzerland who were travelling together and ended up spending lots of time with them by the pool etc. The beach there was so long, and the waves were MASSIVE! loads of amazing surfers here. Weve both tried to have a swim but mostly got drowned to shore by the big waves and looked like beached whales!! Lots of hippy people here with long dreadlocks. Because of the tourism too there quite a lot of drugs. Weve been offered them a few times but people arent pushy-you just have to say ´no gracias¨ and its ok. 

The next 3 nights we stayed in a hostel which we randomly came across on the side of the road, as all the other others were full. It was a very strange place. All very relaxed and its owned by an Isralien guy called Gingi and the place is called Casa de Gingi! We realised a lot of the people around us in our rooms were speaking some strange language which we guessed might be german. Later that evening we discovered everyone staying there is from Israel too! So random so we feel a bit simps being there! Last night we went to cook pasta with veg and after we cooked it we realised there were no plates left...error! so we had to eat out of a saucepan on the floor of our little pokey room with forks. We both agreed this represented quite a LOW point of our trip here!!! haha. To cheer ourselves up we went to the shop to buy some chocolate, came back to the hostel and outside the room next to us was this massive group of Israelians all singing religious songs in their religious clothing and hats and all stood around a big feast of food. It did explain where all the plates had gone as there were about 12 plates there!!! The following evening we even got roped into trying some Isralian food and coffee which they cooked for us!

We headed 30 minutes east along the coast to a place called Montezuma. Small laidback beach town surrounded by palm trees. The place we had booked to stay was SO nice. Our favourite hostel in CR by far. Its in the middle of the jungle, and it all has a really quirky design. Also above our room there is these trees full of cashew nut fruits. The monkeys absolutely love these fruits and swing above our room everyday eating the juices from them. James loved being surrounded by cashew nuts too!!! :p  We also saw a mummy monkey carrying its baby on its back. Some amazing photos of that. We also saw these weird aardvarks running around outside our room, and ant eater animals too. Very natural experience!

 

The next couple of days we spend relaxing on the beach and chatting to friends from the hostel. We also discovered this amazing waterfall which we spend two days there! There are actually 3 waterfalls but we went to the second one, the biggest. You can swim infront of it and jump off the rocks. A few other people were there, some locals who were jumping about 60ft up from the fall...crazy!

 

The last night here we went out to the only club in town as they had a big Reggae night, so we went with some German friends and danced the night away with some Imperial Beers. Were leaving on Monday and off to a National Park called Manuel Antonio for our last 5 days of CR. We are certainly looking forward to our next adventure in Panama next Sunday. 

 

Ciao for nowww xxx