The holiday season was very calm here in
During Christmas week, the entire coast all of a sudden became crowded with tourists though. Our hotel, which, a week earlier, had only four occupants including us, all of a sudden was booked up (30 new occupants in the span of two days!). And the same seemed to have happened everywhere else. On cloudy days, the beach, which was once more or less deserted, was crowded with hopeful sunbathers, and on rainy days, the restaurants and bars in Puerto Viejo were full all afternoon. We took advantage of those not so sunny days to go on long walks on the beach, hikes, and bike rides.
One of our excursions was to Finca
The botanical garden is brimming with them! They apparently are attracted to the bromeliads that are grown in several parts of the garden, because their foliage creates natural water pools that provide habitat and protection for the newborns. The bromeliads actually seem to attract quite a few other criters, including big fury spiders… ugh!
Bromeliad criters
The botanical garden also has a sizeable black pepper plantation and a cacao farm, and we got to try some natural, organic, non-preserved, non-processed, but sweetened chocolate… good stuff! J Anyway, it was all really instructive, great fun, very photogenic, and, as expected, very uncrowded!
Rootbeer flower
On New Year’s day, the rain let up and the sun came out: happy new year! And then the rain came back with a vengeance in the following days! The waves also continued to pound on the shore with heights in the range of 15 to
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