Montezuma

It is not the easiest place to get, requiring a fair bit of traveling.  There isn’t much waiting for you when you get here either.  It’s lovely though.  The guidebooks say it has been on the hippie trail for a good deal of time - referring to it as Montefuma.  Usual story, people turn up for a day or two and stay a week, then a month and some just never leave.

My personal trip from up in the cool damp cloud forest of Monteverde involved a bus either side of a ferry across to the Peninsula of Nicoya.  Ferry is the best bet as the roads on the peninsula aren’t up to too much.  While a trip of beautiful contrasts from the mountains to the Pacific coast, it was a long journey starting at 6am and ending at the hotel at 3:30pm.

As for what to do and see here, well there is the National Park of Cabo Blanco, a few waterfalls, a butterfly park and the general lovely area of beaches and forest.  I was staying at the Mariposario (butterfly reserve) so that got ticked off quickly, with a very informative tour with one of the American students (Renee) staying here.  The waterfalls were beneath the road up to the Mariposario too; very handy.

So I did two of the main sights then just kicked back and did what most people do here.  Relax. Read. Drink some Imperial - usually at Chico's bar. People watch.  And wonder why life can’t be like this most of the time.

My trip away from here was to be equally adventurous - the quick boat across to the almost American surf resort of Jaco - before heading on to Manuel Antonio National Park - and on the way managing to take in a big group of playful dolphins performing around our boat and seeing turtles swimming past us up north to do their egg laying thing.  Boy are they big too!  Weird seeing them swimming slowly inexorably across the straits to northern Nicoya.  All part of the ferry trip too - not a wildlife trip. Excellente!