We arrived at the airport LATE, but boyfriend Andrew was there to pick us up, yey. He drove us to his house in Santa Ana, overlooking the whole city - a really beautiful spot, and such an amazing house. After all the hostels and buses, it felt like we had been rescued, taken in, properly looked after!
We stayed 2 nights before heading to the Caribbean Coast for Christmas.
Our first stop was Cahuita (4 hours from San Jose) - a tiny little reggae town with a national park right next to it. After seeing hardly any animals in the amazon, we were pretty excited about seeing more - loads of monkeys and crab-eating raccoons. One bold monkey tried to steal Kirsty's sunglasses.
The next town along the coast is Puerto Viejo. This is where we were for Christmas Day, we had heard that it was a bit more of a party town. Our expensive hostel was swarming in mosquitoes, and they had overbooked, so we managed to move to a nicer hostel more than half the price, hooray. We ate lots of seafood and lay on Playa Negro - black sand beach. It wasn't the nicest beach in the world, and wondered why people raved about this town so much. In the afternoon we went for a walk along the coast and discovered the white sand beach, where all the surfing waves were...and all the gringoes too! Everything made more sense after seeing that beach! We saw dolphins in the sea as we waited for the bus heading for Panama!
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