The shuttle taking us from the lake to La Fortuna dropped each person at their hostel. Three of us had no accomodation so looked at a couple of hostels before being dropped at 'Gringo Petes Too'.  By the time we arrived there, we were chatting away, so I shared a room with Aussie Kate, and Canadian Sharon decided to get a room for herself. The girls knew each other as had both only just finished a Tucan trip as well! Their's started in Cancun & finished in...

43. Monteverde - 29 May On my way from the Punta Arenas ferry to the Monteverde bus, (which might I add was a much longer walk in the Costa Rican sun than I had anticipated and left us all red & drenched in sweat!), I met Aussie Renee (originally from Newcastle) and Canadian Matt.   It was nice to have some company for the half hour walk and to help find the bus stop!  We found it easily enough and didn't wait too long to board the bus which, took 3.5 ho...

Wow what a cool place Montezuma was!  I can only describe it as my Costa Rican mini Byron -  Byron before it got too popular! May is low season, so crowds were low as it is supposed to be the rainy season.  The weather was great though - similar to Brisbane summer with storm clouds & thunder rolling in most afternoons, threatening rain but not always delivering! I stayed at a place called Luna Llena & splashed out on a private room for my 5 night bea...

I arrived in San Jose late arvo and was picked up by a transfer ... It was cheaper then  cab and didnt want to be stressing catching buses alone. The transfer guy spoke great english and was friendly and funny :-) liking Central America already! I got to my hostel - Costa Rica Backpackers just before dusk. The guy behind the counter was pretty useless and gave me directions to the wrong room - a boys only dorm so suprised some guy that was sleeping ...  In ...