More news from CR - more random stuff! After living with the Tico´s for 3 days (muchas gracias familia Chaves Murillo y mi profesora de baile, Español y rancheros!) and visiting Volcan Poas it was time to pick up Mayo (yu-huuu!) and go to a more relaxing place, simply because SOMEONE needed a rest ;) Anyway, time to go back to the Caribbean coast, visiting a small town named Cahuita. The town is just big enough to host a national park, which causes the beach not to be too crowded as well as the opportunity to spot all kinds of wildlife on and around the beach. Wacth your belongings - there’s monkeys out and about there! After some relaxation (and a midnight hike with no flashlight!) we decided to go down south to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, which is slightly bigger but still not very crowded. Over here we’ve finally had the opportunity to provide some ‘living proof’ of Rene on a surfboard - see below! The following days should be more meaningful (in terms of experience) and the plan is to gear up to Manzanillo (national park) and Tortuguero. We’ll keep you posted, have fun watching some new pics!

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Volcan Poas, summit (2700m+)

Yet another beach (Cahuita)

Welcome Mayo!

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OK, so this post is going to be quite random, covering the stuff I did in the last few days! First of all, hello from Costa Rica! Yes, I did manage to leave Panama behind me though it was hard ;)

Here´s a story about “lucky losers” - So I´ve made an effort to climb Volcan Baru (3478m), however this time Mother Nature was not in our favour as much as she was before. We climbed up at night (for those that dont´t know, over here 8pm equals pitch black ;)) hoping we could see the sunrise and as such, Panama´s both neighbouring seas. This might sound stupid but given the climate over in Boquete at this time of year it does make more sense, trust me :) However, it started to rain during the walk up and this didn´t stop until 11 the next morning - great! Well, camping in a small tent was fun but this caused us not to be able to get to the summit! However, the spot we camped in was quite a pretty one so we did get some good views (2600m altitude and enough sheep to provide snacks for a small town). Later on it turned out that the summit had been covered in clouds all day, meaning we were the only ones that did see something. Thank you once again Mother Nature! ;)

Next day consisted of some relaxing and reconnecting with some friends from Bocas (hello Bernadette, Nadine, Karen, Annelieke, Mathilde, Ins :)) and a fun visit to hot springs, in dry weather this time ;) Also visited a school - thanks to which I´m now sure I´ll never have kids - and a wildlife refuge (for those of you that didn´t know - this is NOT the same as a zoo ;)) After this random stuff I decided to go to Costa Rica to visit some friends there… si Lucia, vengo mañana! Te llamo en una hora! ;) As I´m sort of in transit to San Jose / Poas, I decided to crash down in a place that is more or less on the road - and why not pick a pretty one like Golfito! Warm regards from the Pacific side!

Speak soon again!!

-Rene

Update 02-Oct: Photos now available!

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Volcan Baru - grrr....

We meet again!

Pozos Caldera - in good weather!

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