Tamarindo: Leaping in Paradise

We left the cloud forest today, journeying over rocky, unpaved roads down the mountain, until we finally reached the Pan-American highway, where things improved a little. Still it's hard to complain when we were in our hotel pool cooling off well before noon.

We're staying near at El Sabanero Eco Lodge, near Tamarindo, a little way away from the beach and the shops. It's pretty quiet out here, but we're expecting another dawn wake-up call from the monkeys. Later, though, we are going in search of food and waves, and a little bit more civilisation. Relatively speaking.