Costa Rica-El Coco

At the end of September 09 Eric, Harold and I took an epic trip to Costa Rica. We flew into Liberia in the North West and flew out of the capital of San Jose. As always we had no real plan, just a vague idea of what we were gonna do. We ended up spending the first night in the beach town of El Coco. We had a great night drinking beers and listening to Tico Tunes.

We woke up and headed down the coast to the surf town of Tamarindo. The waves are a reasonable size and there is little undertow and no coral. So it makes it an excellent place to learn how to surf. So we did. It was a lot of fun. After a few days of surfing, we decided it was time to head inland.

So we headed up to the Monteverde Cloud Rain Forest. We found a great cabina in Santa Elana. We had a great time in the rain forest. We rode some sick zip lines. They had a cool superman zip line, where they clip you in under the line and you ride from mountain to mountain and it feels like you are flying. At one point I must have been 3000 feet over the valley floor. It was crazy. There was also a huge tarzan swing that swung you out over the top of the rain forest canopy. If ever have the chance I highly recommend the zip lines to everyone. We also took out some ATVs and ripped it up.

After spending a few days in the rainforest, we decided it was time to head to the capital, the big city, San Jose. We had a great time there. We had heard some rumors that San Jose was not safe, we found it to be wonderful. The first day we ate lunch in a huge indoor market. They had everything from t-shirts to fish markets. Really something for everyone. We also enjoyed the nightlife, the bar scene was pretty roudy, but enjoyable.

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