Rolo on Tour

(12) Why does it always rain on me?

29 12 2010

The time intervals between my posts get longer and longer, so one short update on what I did the last 2 weeks:

After having relaxed enough in Liberia I made my way to the national park of Monteverde without actually going to visit the park. Instead I went to another canopy tour and it was not quite comparable with the one I went to in Nicaragua. This one was called ‚Extremo‘ and that name was justified as they had crazy long and high cables, the last one being a 1 km long so-called superman cable, where you were basically flying over a valley, 180 metres high. Awesome!

Next I spent two nights in the capital of Costa Rica, San José. It is supposed to be a bit dangerous there, but nevertheless I was quite surprised that when I got off my bus at 7pm on the main road and only had to walk 200 metres to my hostel, everybody advised me to take a cab there. I still walked and it was fine.
San José was quite fun, in the hostel with some creative dinner and drinks and later watching a full lunar eclipse in the middle of the night and the day I left in front of it, where I met some street artists juggling for tips, so I could not help but helping them earning some money ;-).

Those guys were pros, here one of them got an indoor surfboard on his chin 😉

I also found a german book in the book exchange and it was so cool to once again understand everything you read which for me is not the case reading in english.

The days of Christmas and New Year’s I planned to stay at the caribbean coast and Puerto Viejo de Talamanca was first on the list. The hostel I was in there was quite huge, there was a countless number of tents and hammocks plus some dorm rooms. The first time during this trip I slept in a tent and it was quite comfortable.

The area, where all the tents were set up; mine is next to the bucket

Christmas was spent ruining my feet playing soccer in the woods with locals and having tacos for dinner. Quite different than normal!

Next day I had enough of Costa Rica and went to Bocas del Toro, Panama, where I met my friend Mack again. Unluckily it turned out that the day I arrived was the only one for a long time with sunshine, which prevented all beach plans and made us leave there after 3 nights.