It's hard to believe we are even in the same country as we were 2 days ago. Puerto Viejo feels more like you are in Jamaica than Costa Rica. There are rasta guys everywhere, jerk chicken at every turn, market stalls lining the beach, and reggae music being played from bars along the beach. Our first day we hired bikes and rode along the main beach road, which connects 5 or 6 beach towns and it's dotted with nice little resturants and bars. It was about 12km long...

After la Fortuna, we headed to the Carribean Coast. There are two coasts in Costa Rica, one on the Pacific Ocean and one on the Carribean. The Pacific coast is probably want you think of when you think of Costa Rica beaches - white sand, blue sea and lots of weathly American tourists. Although beautiful it is very expensive and currently in 'winter' (which means its still warm but rains a lot of the day). So we decided to head to the Carribean coast, not as built...

From Montevede we booked the 'jeep-boat-jeep' transfer (actually a minibus-boat-minibus) to La Fortuna. La Fortuna is a small town built around an active volcano. We arrived about noon, so decided to spend the afternoon walking to a waterfall. It was only 6km away and we thought it would be a nice stroll, we didn't really take into account how hot it was or how hilly the walk would be. Jolly was so sweaty that most people who drove past in a taxi (the smart ones...

We had to get up at 2:30am to get our flight out of New York (I was stoked about that), so we arrived in San Jose in the morning but we booked on an afternoon bus to Monteverde or 'The cloud rainforest'. The bus stop was located at a Dennys restaurant (Grand slam, hot fudge cake, and oreo sundae - yes that Dennys) a couple of kilometres from the airport so to get there we had to pretend we were staying at the Holiday Inn and get on their shuttle bus (the hotel...