Upon arrival we were worried about the huge numbers of people on the beach, until we realised that they were all ticos (Costa Ricans) visiting the beach for the weekend then making their mass exodus on Sunday afternoon when we arrived. So for us this meant a nice quiet beach for the next few days....or so we thought until coincidentally we ran into Fabienne (the French volunteer from our homestay) & Jorge (from Pip's English class). After some beers on the beach, we decided to make a date for the next day to picnic with Fabienne & also Emilse and her family from our homestay in Bijagua. What a great day it was! Fabian who is now 9 last visited the beach when he was 2. It was a beautiful day of swimming, eating and playing at the beach with our familia de Costa Rica.
The next day we headed to Rincon de La Vieja, for some volcano action where we smelt the sulphuric steam rising from beneath the earth, we saw bubbling mud exactly like "The Bog of Eternal Stench" in the movie "The Labyrinth". We also saw a bisote, a very cute creature which we didn't know existed before our time in Costa Rica. We also saw a woodpecker, more capuchin monkeys and iguanas.
Then our time in Costa Rica was over. We arrived at Liberia's International Airport (possibly the smallest international airport in the whole world) for our flight to NYC!!! "No sleep til Brooklyn".
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