My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Our last full day in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we fly to Houston and then to San Francisco. Today we checked out the Costa Rica Jade Museum. It’s a five story relatively new building and very interesting.
Our last dinner of the trip was at La Diez Parilla Argentina, quite near our hotel. My steak was tender and tasty and the service was great. They told us they had only been open four months.
Today we drove from the mountains east of San Jose to downtown San Jose. Our Cachi hotel was way up in the valley in picture below. We turned in our rental car and walked to our hotel. It is quite a change. The second picture below is outside our San Jose Hotel.
This morning Duke and I hiked up the trail that we scoped out yesterday. It starts just above where we are staying and goes up, up, up. It was only about a mile total and 500 feet elevation gain but it felt pretty steep. The humidity is so high here that my glasses fog up when we hike and sweat immediately starts running off my body.
The rest of the day we just took it easy and enjoyed this peaceful spot.
La Costa de Pepito where we stayed in Puerto Viejo the last two night was wonderful. I especially liked how our bungalow was open air and very much one with the tropical environment. The whole time we were there we would occasionally hear a strange very load noise that I can only describe as the sound of an unhappy donkey braying. This morning before we left I asked what that noise was. They said it was howler monkeys!!
Today we retraced our steps back towards San Jose where we will turn our car in on Sunday morning.
We are staying at a beautiful spot in the mountains near Cachi, Hotel Quelitales. It feels very remote although it is less than thirty miles from San Jose. After we got here we checked out the waterfall and the hiking trail.
Our bungalow is very comfortable and modern.
Our dinner tonight st the hotel was one of the best we have had on the entire trip.
Another relaxing day on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. This morning we went swimming at the beach across from our hotel.
It rained most of the afternoon so we sat on our porch and relaxed.
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