Navigated the dodgy bridge border crossing into Costa Rica and rewarded ourselves with a few days chilling out on the Caribbean coast, some awesome beaches and snorkelling around there.
Decided to brave the dodgy roads (and dodgier public transport) to find the town of San Gerardo, the base town to climb Costa Rica´s highest mountain (3820m). The guidebook vaguely mentioned the path was steep, and 8 hours into the first day to base camp, we would definitely have classed it as frickin´ steep!! The race was on against the days thunderstorm, and unfortunately the last few km of that day was in torrential rain as we tried to ignore all the dead burnt trees and lightening around us.... staggered to base camp and a very unwelcoming welcome, the ranger wouldn´t even let us have any hot water for our noodles.... boo hoo. Second day was pretty darn hard too, 26km and steep steep steep all the way. But we did it!! (Couldnt walk for the next three days but thats not the point!!)
Onto La Fortuna next, where we explored lava fields, waterfalls and even managed to time it right and see Volcan Arenal erupt!! wow weeeeeee!
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