We headed to Manuel Antonio National Park quite early before the big busses start arriving. This park is one of the smallest in size, but has the most visitors out of any in Costa Rica! At 8am, there were at least 5 tour guides taking groups of people around. We were going to join one but decide we'd rather just take our time and explore the park on our own. Besides, we passed by so many guides, that we could pick up some information along the way and save oursel...

I left La Garcita, with the other English-speaking volunteers, at 13:30 and took a bus into central San Ramon in order to catch the early bus to Puntarenas. So, the REAL adventure begins when you start taking public transport (mainly buses) in a Latin American country. Surprisingly, for the amount of tourists that come to Costa Rica, not many Ticos speak English or, are willing to speak Ingles! From there, it was a 1-hour wait for the bus to Quepos where I had to...