We took our flight at 6 o clock in the morning from Brazil after leaving the barbecue party at 2 o clock. We arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, at night only to find out that the rainy season just had begun. So the rain made a lot of sense. It still made sense after one entire week of hard rain, because a tropical storm made its way through Costa Rica and Nicaragua. By that time we replaced the Costa Rican saying „Pura Vida“ (Pure life) with „Pura mierda“ (Pure shit). We still enjoyed ourselves though.
From San Jose we went to Puerto Viejo on the Carribean side of the country. Went to a national park to find out that it was impossible to enter it without guide (they were all gone by the time we arrived), and without proper shoes (we were wearing sandals, because by the time we left our hostel to get there the sun was shining, of course by the time we arrived at the park we would have needed Noahs Arch to get around). Had one nice day in Puerto viejo which we used for a hike in another national park, called Cahuita. We saw leafcutter ants, monkeys, different kinds of crabs, lizards and a snake. After hiking for approximately 3 hours, fighting mosquitos and getting scared by the sounds of howler monkeys we made it out of the park. While waiting on the bus we talked to a dutch couple, who had done the same hike with a local guide. In order to show off we let them take a look at the picture of the snake we had seen. They explained us that it is deadly poisonous. Lucky us….
On the next day we drove to Monteverde, a nice little village located within the mountains close to the Pacific side. Monteverde is famous for its cloud forests and is home to several animal species, such as the Quetzal, a colourful bird that is rare to see and which I would not write about if we wouldn t have seen it ourselves. Our guide told us that some crazy bird spotters pay him 100 bucks only to see this bird. Well we paid 10 bucks each to enter the park and that was it. BUYAAAA. The cloud forest was pretty amazing. Moist, green and with animals all around it certainly felt like Central America. The same was true for the room we stayed in, which was home to lots of different insects scaring us during the night. Right outside of our room a sloth had its home in a little forest.
We left rainy Costa Rica after nine days curious to see Nicaragua, sun and waves. Costa Rica has been the first country that we did not like that much. Maybe it was because of the weather or the somehow unfriendly locals…
1.Rainy season in Puerto Viejo 
2. Leafcutter ant 
3.Insects 
4. Monkeys 
5.Snake 
6. Snake 
7. Lizard 
8. Monkeys in Cahuita park 
9. Bjoern with friends 
10.Begging Monkeys
11. Colibri 
12. Jana in the Monteverde park 
13. Rainforest 
14. Captain Bjoern 
15.Big centipede 
16. The Cloud forest 
17. Big insect 
18. Waterfall in the forest
19. A pig friend 
20.Lazy sloth 
21. Beautiful Quezal 
22.Our Costa Rican guide 
23. A stick bug 
24. A german bug 
