Monteverde

📌 We arrived into our last country in Central America. We immediately noticed the difference, more English, much higher prices and very evident tourist focused infrastructure. Montverde was definitely focused around selling tours and day trips.

📌 We decided to do a night walk in order to try find some night creatures. We had some moderate success admiring a very small super poisonous viper, a scorpion and some birds. It was nice walking through the forest at night with the sounds of the animals but also it didn't feel as authentic as most of the Costa Rican forest in this area is private and thus in small reserves that are surrounded by human infrastructure such as farms and roads. This meant we were not overly keen on paying to go hiking, something that seems wrong.

📌 On our full day we enjoyed some local coffee which was decent, and then we decided it was a day for a brewery. We popped into a quick Italian panini place which was a hidden surprise before heading to the Monteverde brewery. One thing led to another and we were about 5 pints deep with the other English couple on the trip, having a great time!Read more