¡Hola!

So after that amazing flight from Drake Bay we stopped for a quick lunch with Colleen in San Jose, said our goodbyes, and caught a bus to the Caribbean coast.Colleen gave us this cool dice game as a goodbye present; it´s called Farkle and it's kind of like poker, but with dice.

Anyway, we headed to a place called Cahuita, which had been highly recommended to us by lots of people but was a bit disappointing really.It´s the sort of town where you could easily loose a week (and a lot of cash) if you wanted to just chill, eat, drink and get stoned, and there were certainly a lot of people there doing just that.But for us it had little to offer besides some really nice food - amazing Caribbean coconut curries and soups!The weather didn´t help much; it rained a lot while we were there and didn´t clear up until the day we left.This was a shame as we had tried to visit the nearby national park at Manzanillo, where there is a walk you can do through the jungle and ends at a pristine beach - Punta Mona - apparently one of Costa Rica´s finest.But, alas, our bus managed to crash into a car in Puerto Viejo, which marked the end of that journey (Latin American beaurocracymakes such matters painfully slow to resolve); in the end we hired a quad bike to reach Manzanillo, which was actually really good fun and allowed us to explore some of the other beautiful hidden spots on route.However, the rain was a joke, and any hopes of trekking through the jungle that day were dashed.So, we cut our losses and headed into Panama.

One thing that was striking about the Caribbean coast was just how different the people and culture were compared to the rest of Costa Rica.The atmosphere in Limon province is most definitely laid-back (Bob Marley reverberating about the town), and most of the locals are of black West Indian descent and speak English.The reggae music was definitely a welcome break from that nauseating reggaeton stuff that´s being played everywhere else!

R&M

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