After a shoddy bus trip packed to the gunnels with people, babies being passed from person to person, as elders took their rightful seat on the bus and Mothers gave their tired arms a rest, we finally made it to Puntareanas.
Puntareanas is the port town that has a ferry connecting the Central coast to the Nicoya Pennisula. The ferry passed a very scenic route gliding past white sand islands and tropical rainforest on the shoreline. Just as the ferry was about to pull into the dock we could not believe the one shop port town was bigger enough to support our massive ferry. At that moment, i was reminded of taking the dodgy ferry in Indonesia, that went out against all odds and low and behold sunk 2 wks later taking with it the lives of 200 people.
We made it to the otherside though! We made friends with 2 Canadians in Monteverde who shared a cab with us all the way to Montezuma.
Montezuma is a special little hippy like town with cute shops and handmade jewellery markets lining the streets. The beaches are fluffy golden sand and a steady beach break rolling in.
Unfortunately Montezuma did live up to its name with an attack of Montuzemas revenge for Darren.
We did manage to see some beautiful waterfalls which entailed a steep rockclimb to get to the top and nothing but a rope to break your fall on the way down. The next day we were on the beach taking photos and a man informed us that we shouldnt be seen with our cameras at the waterfall because there had been a mugging at knife point the day before. So it was a narrow escape for us. On our walk home from the beach we did see a police cornered off area where a guy was being arrested (perhaps for the mugging, as there were a few cameras at their feet).
