Santa Elena/Monteverde

We woke up on Friday happy to be making the trek across Lake Arenal to the cloud forest. We decided to do the trek in style and take the ¨jeep-boat-jeep¨ option which cut off 3 hours of the journey. The jeep boat jeep ended up being taxi-boat-taxi but it still was pretty beautiful. All the hills and greenery and the water was so peaceful.

We arrived in Santa Elena around noon and although everyone in the taxi got off at the more popular hostel, we decided to go to one off the beaten path. The taxi took us up a long gravel road and let us out. At the first hostel we asked for a room, but they were booked in the type of room we wanted so i walked up the road to look for another one. The one we found was called Vista del Golfo and we fell in love with it. It was pretty small, up on the hill overlooking the hills, the cloud forest and pieces of the gulf on a clear day. There is wooden furniture on an overlook, a little cute kitchen and hammocks on the patio. Our room is great, private and with real mattresses! And the best part, it is only $7 a night!!! So needless to say, our 2 nights has turned into 4 and we are just hanging out relaxing in our little hideway in the forest.

We have spent our days exploring the Childrens Eternal Rainforest, hiking, shopping and cooking. We decided to buy all of our groceries for these four days and it has been amazing, eating all fresh healthy foods. Every day, the clouds come in and you cant even see like 5 feet in front of you, it is so beautiful.

Yesterday we saw lot of toucans, Agouti which look just like the picture on Fruit Loops! It was awesome!

On Wednesday we will be leaving here to go to go pick up Dustin! Yeah!!! and trek out to see Poas Volcano and a Waterfall Garden...

Time is flying, so I guess we better get back to relaxing! Talk to you all soon!

Missy and Jenny