apparently costa ricans have a different impression of what makes up a good road than i do. or at least the parking lot owner in liberia does. the road from volcan arenal to monteverde started off good…then was dirt….then dirt with stone….and then finally mud (it started to rain). the pic shows the road and on the hillside you can see a small coffee farm. they grow trees in grids around the coffee to protect it from the wind.
it’s still raining here. however, i did manage to score a nice $7 hostel (shared bathroom, but private room) in the center of town. unfortunately, they’ve blocked file transfers on their router. and….unlike 3/4 of the other hotels/hostels…they also changed their router password from the default.
NEXT MORNING (06/19)
this morning i went on a canopy tour. i went for the aventura company which is supposedly the most adventurous one (now that they have the superman canopy experence, where you hang like superman across the zipline). it was fun and cool scenery. i was also very impressed by how efficiently they handled the group. the only time i experienced a sensation of fear/adrenaline, though was on the tarzan swing….where you swing down from platform 50 feet above the ground….into a valley of trees. pretty cool.
Canopy Tour Videos:
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- Road to Monte Verde