Hey all
Just a quick one to let you know we've added some more pics so check them out!
Have spent the last week in Costa Rica, very expensive after Nica where we were sleeping on camp beds for $3 a night. Since last updating we have done three hikes (all prep for the Inca Trail!), one really kinda hard one up a volcano for 8 hours which served to help us appreciate the little things in life, like lying down.
Since arriving in Costa Rica we have visited Tamarindo (very Americanised holiday town) in an unsuccessful search for turtles, and are now staying in Montezuma where we've seen loads of monkeys, hummingbirds and an armadillo....have met some really cool people here and having fun :) Also working on our Spanish after we both mistook 'quince' (fifteen) for 'cinco' (five) and ended up paying for a fifteen-thousand colone taxi ride (THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS!!!). Needless to say that is not a mistake I'll make twice.
Next stop Monteverde, a famous national park (backtracking a little as we are unfortunately unable to visit Corcovado, a properly wild peninsular down south, due to the torrential rains in October). After that we'll speed through Panama to Panama City, hopefully joining a boat trip to Colombia by next week.
Hope all's well! Sorry that we can't really email people very often but please send us any news you may have (we will reply!)
Matt and Ash
