Monday, March 9, 2009

Days 101-105 - Dominical, Costa Rica

We arrived to Dominical on Tuesday around noon after an overnight bus from Panama City. We had quite the delay at the border at 5am when the windows to let us out of Panama were not open for the first hour or so that we were there. Following that delay, we made good time the remainder of the way to Dominical.

We found ourselves a cabina at Tortilla Flats which was extremely centrally located on the beach and within a few minutes of the main drag in town. The restaurant at the hotel-hostel was pretty happening as well which made it a nice place for us to stay.

During the days, we went to the beach and made an ocean kayak voyage before Erin left us on Thursday. Once Erin left to Panama once again, Gretchen and I took some time to get our plans in order. On our final day, we woke up before sunrise for our day voyage to Parque Nacional Corcovado on the Peninsula de Osa. It was a 45 minute drive to a 1.5 hour boat in order to get to the first ranger station in the park. The park itself was absolutely gorgeous with loads of wildlife for us to see including bats, howler monkeys and scarlet macaws. We spent several hours walking around with our guide before making the journey back to Dominical for sunset.

The next stop on the way back to Nicaragua for me was Manuel Antonio.

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