Back to Costa Rica

March 27th, after nearly 5 years I was finally back in my favorite country ever, Costa Rica. A lesser man may have cried from the emotions that arouse, but as you all know, I don´t do that.
Anyways, if any of you have ever heard me talk about it (Dave) I fucking LOVE Costa Rica. First stop Parque Corcovado, ¨The Most Bio-diverse place in the world,¨ - National Geographic. It was intense. Straight hiking through the real deal rain-forest. They gave us pamphlets as to what to do in case we came across an Pumas. We bought Machetes so we felt prepared...enough. Got to the base camp late one afternoon and camped out. Woke up at 4am and set out on the journey.

So we hiked for about 4 hours on the beach which was REALLY tough, then we found that there was an actual path just 5 m inside the jungle to our right...woops. It was still a grueling HOT 8 hour hike, I brought 5 liters of water with me which was barely enough, but it really was awesome. Towards the end we came to a river crossing that was about 20 m across and we had been told that bull sharks go in there at high tide. We thought we were screwed, but thankfully we found a smaller area to cross and survived. We arrived to our base camp around 2pm and then went to a river where supposedly you can see sharks and Crocs fighting over food. We did not see this. At this moment though we met some guys, Chris and Tim who seemed cool. Little did we know that they would become our Ninja Turtle Macaws. This is just some inside joke stuff, if I explain it any further you´ll all just say we´re weird. You probably already will, but I don´t care.  It ended up raining balls that afternoon so about 8 of us ran out on the field and played soccer in this torrential downpour which was the most fun I had had in a long time. We than saw a Tapir, which is apparently a big deal.  The next morning we hiked back with our new friends and then proceeded to eat pizza at least once a week for the next 7-10 days that we were with each other. I have kept this ratio up during the rest of the trip.

Tim and I went to Tortuguero in search of Leather Back sea turtles hatching, but saw none :( Tim then left and I hung out with the hostel receptionist. Tim had fun in Nicaragua (see Tim for more details).