We arrived late Friday night after a mission. We took a bus to the ferry then a bus to a main intersection where from there we caught another bus to a town close to Tamarindo where we were going to stay but accommodation was expensive so we ended up getting a taxi to Tamarindo for $30 between 4. Found a great hostel, The Black Sheep which was $12 a night each with the 4 of us in our own room. Big change from Mal Pais, the Americans have come through and made it v...

Mal Pais was a 7 hour trip from San Jose. We had to take a bus, ferry and then bus again. We found the hostel that some of our other mates were staying at which was pretty handy cause it was pretty late at night. Now on the Pacific Coast we expected a bit more out of this town people had raved about it but there was not much to do and the surf was so big that it wasn't very pleasant going in the ocean. We spent 3 nights there which was a bit of a waste but I ...

We crossed the boarded today to Costa Rica so many people had told us this border crossing was one of the worst but for us it was one of the easiest ones. We just had to catch a bus on the Panama side to border and then walk across no mans land to Costa Rica where we caught another taxi to Puerto Viajo. We found this great hostel Crocodile Surf Camp which we had a little bungalow on the beach. Straight away I loved this town, its small with loads of restaurants o...

After a 3 hour bus trip and half hour boat trip we arrived at Boca islands. We weren't sure if the town would be busy as it was Easter Sunday. We thought we would give one of the popular hostels a go anyway and it was sweet as everyone had checked out that day. The hostel bar just happened to have 50c beer happy hour every night so it was the place to go. The first day we had there we just chilled out around the island and then headed over to another small is...

After a few days in the city it was time to move on again and we had heard of this lodge in a cloud forest called Lost and Found. We thought it would be a great idea to rock up at the bus station Easter Friday and get a bus west to David which is a major connecting town to the rest of Panama. We get to the bus station in PC and the line was about 300mts long and only 1 person serving. We looked at the map to see what towns were on the way and ended up taking a bu...