Jeep - Boat - Jeep
Day 4
We left La Fortuna this morning on the 8:30AM Jeep-Boat-Jeep ride to Monteverde. There are a couple of ways out of La Fortuna. Most people head on over to Santa Elena, right around the corner from Monteverde. Some people take the trip by taking a 3 hour horseback ride around the lake and through the hills. Amy and I decided that was way too much punishment for our buttocks. We so settled on the jeep-boat-jeep trip that was supposed to take two and a half hours.
We left promptly at 8:30AM. But the jeep wasn´t really a jeep. It was more like a tourist mini-van. Took us around 30 minutes to get to Lake Arenal where we were going to do the crossing on a simple tourist bus. After another hour boat ride, where the boat inevitably ran out of gas, we made it to the other shore. How does a boat captain not fill up before he disembarked. Fortunately, he had some extra gas.
The jeep/mini van ride over to Santa Elena was our first true glimpse of the notoriously bad Costa Rican road. Not paved. Holes everywhere. Somehow, we didn´t get in town until 12:30PM. Don´t know how this math works out, but our two and a half trip turned out to be four hours.
Santa Elena is a sleepy, but charming little town. The triangular shaped town square is probably 500 meters in circumfrance at the maximum. Amy want to stay at some place she saw on the internet call Don Taco. What in the world is a "Don" and who is this Taco guy. They didn´t serve any Taco´s in their little restaurant that´s never open. Nevertheless, we were happy with $35 per night and we stayed.
Gotta go. I´ll write more about our coffee planation tour tomorrow. It´s really more like a coffee backyard. 5 hectarces. That´s no planation!! They make more money sell $25 tourist visits than selling coffee!
We left La Fortuna this morning on the 8:30AM Jeep-Boat-Jeep ride to Monteverde. There are a couple of ways out of La Fortuna. Most people head on over to Santa Elena, right around the corner from Monteverde. Some people take the trip by taking a 3 hour horseback ride around the lake and through the hills. Amy and I decided that was way too much punishment for our buttocks. We so settled on the jeep-boat-jeep trip that was supposed to take two and a half hours.
We left promptly at 8:30AM. But the jeep wasn´t really a jeep. It was more like a tourist mini-van. Took us around 30 minutes to get to Lake Arenal where we were going to do the crossing on a simple tourist bus. After another hour boat ride, where the boat inevitably ran out of gas, we made it to the other shore. How does a boat captain not fill up before he disembarked. Fortunately, he had some extra gas.
The jeep/mini van ride over to Santa Elena was our first true glimpse of the notoriously bad Costa Rican road. Not paved. Holes everywhere. Somehow, we didn´t get in town until 12:30PM. Don´t know how this math works out, but our two and a half trip turned out to be four hours.
Santa Elena is a sleepy, but charming little town. The triangular shaped town square is probably 500 meters in circumfrance at the maximum. Amy want to stay at some place she saw on the internet call Don Taco. What in the world is a "Don" and who is this Taco guy. They didn´t serve any Taco´s in their little restaurant that´s never open. Nevertheless, we were happy with $35 per night and we stayed.
Gotta go. I´ll write more about our coffee planation tour tomorrow. It´s really more like a coffee backyard. 5 hectarces. That´s no planation!! They make more money sell $25 tourist visits than selling coffee!
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