January 24, 2003
Costa Rica part II

This might very well be our very last post in Central America :( We are back in Costa Rica, on a very mellow and beautiful beach town called Nosara. We had heard that itīs the perfect place to learn to surf and itīs going well so far!

We made an unprecedented one-day, 14 hour trip from Ometepe Island on Lake Nicaragua. It started with a 2 hour bus ride at 3:45am, an hour boat ride, a 45 minute ride to the border, a 1.5 hour wait through the most inefficient immigration line to enter Costa Rica, an hour bus ride to Liberia, another 2 hour bus ride to Nicoya and finally a 1.5 hour bumpy ride to Nosara!! whew, what a day!

Ometepe Island was beautiful! It consists of two volcanos on a sort of hour glass shape island. Looks like a pair of boobs, except the volcanos arent the same height, hee hee. We stayed at a hostel on the water. Did a muddy hike up on of the volcanos with a cloudforest type vegetation on the top (itīs almost always covered on clouds). Another day we hiked to a 50m waterfall. We would have stayed longer to do some kayaking but the waves were calling...

Wonīt be in much contact probably till next weekend when we are back in San Francisco since, unfortunately, internet and other things are quite expensive out here, especially since we just came back from Nicaragua where it cost us about $25 a day!

So thatīs about it, we will be spending the next 4 or 5 days surfing and hopefully the last few days building houses for Habitat for Humanity. Will see some of you soon in San Francisco and Vancouver!

Posted by Karen at January 24, 2003 06:53 PM | TrackBack
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Hola Chica,

Great to hear that you liked Nicaragua. Isn't it fantastic. I am back in Xela, and it is not the same without you.

Will send you an email soon with lots of info about New Zealand.

Much love
Karen dos

Posted by: Karen Skinner on January 27, 2003 08:45 PM
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