Ballena de Uvita

Next Stop: the Ballena National Park in Uvita. When we arrived around lunchtime we checked into our Hostel, cascada verde, that we had booked very spontanously and we were surprised by how cool it was. Again it was a bit further outside the village in between trees but reachable by car this time. There was a terrace with a beautiful view, where you could even see the sea. Sebatian the danish guy hadn’t gotten on the bus in the end and instead had come to the hostel with us, where he found a room to stay. In the afternoon the three of us went to see the cascadas, close to the hostel. Afterwards we found a butterfly house, the mariposario, totally by chance and got to see some very pretty butterflies. In the evening we cooked in the hostel together. We tried out a costa-rican vegetable and ate rice with pico de gallo, avocado and tuna out of the can. It was a typical backpackers dinner I would say, but it was not bad at all. The next day we went to the national park and walked along the beautiful beach, which seemed endless. There was high tide at first but as the tide slowly went down and the water moved away we could start to see the shape of a whale fin appearing at one corner of the beach. We walked to the very end of the fin and as we turned around we were stunned by the view: dark, almost black sand im front of a forest of light green palmtrees encircled by dark green hills under the blue sky. The clouds had almost faded away completely at this point and the sun was heating up the air, so that when we got back to the main beach, we went for a swim anf hung around on our towels. At some point Sebastian got hungry so he went off and came back with two coconuts. It was really funny to see him trying to open them. Eventually he did it and we had fresh coconut to snack. On our way back we stopped at the supermarked and bought local fruits we wanted to try, two beers, of which one was glutenfree and some potato chips. We sat down in the hostel and had our ice cold beer with the chips. Next to us there were monkeys playing in the trees and we observed them for a while. In the evening Noah and I went out to eat in a restaurant. The next morning we had breakfast on our pretty terrace, and explored a place they call bamboo forest, with hige bamboos and found a river with crystal clear and emerald blue water. We checked out from our hostel at 11 and drove to our next destination, Dominical.Read more