You are going to be a bit suprised by this update! Mainly because we are not going to use the words beautiful, awe-inspiring, gorgeous, incredible or even fun... Instead we thought it would be more fun to use words such as disgusting, dull, run down, a complete hell hole! Yes our tour of Central America was one country off complete, and we had the unfortunate dipleasure of visiting San Jose. Honestly I know to explore Costa Rica you have to fly in here, but ge...

So we reluctantly left Monteverde and started the trip to La Fortuna which is only about a 3 minute flight but took us 3-4 hours because if the crazy winding roads! Some sensational views though. We entered a lake and took a boat to the other side of the bigeest lake in Costa Rica. THe cool thing about this lake is not only does it give a place for the native alligators to chill out, it also has the best view of teh Arenal Volcano - the most active in Costa Ric...

We left Nicuragua early and headed to Costa Rica. This was a day we were very much looking forward to as our frist location was Monteverde - the legendary cloud forest. Although before we got there Dave was witness to a stray dog running in front of a van in front of us - he said it scared him for life! This incident followed by the crappest border in all of Central America - it took nearly 2 hours to get through due to rude people pushing in front of us. Anyhow...