Entering Costa Rica: Monteverde, San Jose, Quepos, Uvita and arriving in Drake Bay
Again apologies for the lateness of this post. In the jungle it is easy to lose track of time! Continuing from last time..... Time was ticking- we were aiming for a volunteer project in Costa Rica, so it was soon time to leave Nicaragua. We decided to skip Isla Ometepe (one of the most popular destinations in Nicaragua), as we would be returning to Nicaragua after volunteering in Costa Rica. So we headed off on a chicken bus to Rivas, with hordes of other travellers mostly on their way to Ometepe. A couple of French girls invited us to share their taxi to the border and caused us a great amount of stress when we found that they were heading to Ometepe instead. Needless to say, we wasted some money, half an hour and many frustrated/angry words on the taxi back to Rivas and were unceremoniously dumped on a street next to a man selling puppies in a cage, to wait for the next bus to the border. Great Tailed Grackles at dusk in the central park of Liberia Once we got on the b...