Time just passes by too quickly here - it has been almost 2 weeks since I passed the boarder to Costa Rica! I guess I should have planned better, Costa Rica is by far the most expensive country in Central America and I will still be here for a while, but there are just so many nice places to visit.

Not being American makes me feel exotic - 1.5 million (mostly American) visitors come to Costa Rica  each year (population of only 4 million people), so I usually ask from which part of the States people are, rather than from which country =)

After one night in the main town Nicoya, I spent a couple of days at Playa Guiones - struggeling with a rented surfboard among 90% surfers from California who knew what they were doing. Afterwards I headed further south to the little beach town Samara, the perfect place to chill out for a few days. Together with Chris, Dan & Andy from Wisconsin, I then travelled to the small village Montezuma, another beach town with some nice but small water falls (we are at the end of dry season), and finally Monteverde where I went on a Canopy tour, bought some more coffee at a Coffee tour and walked through another cloud forrest.

Check out some pics of Nicoya & Monteverde.