This past weekend the whole group went to Monte Verde, all 15 of us! We caught the 2pm bus and all the seats were taken... we thought we were not going to be able to make it to Monte Verde! Luckily here in Costa Rica you are allowed to stand during bus rides... so stand we did for four hours.
We arrived that night and decided to chill at the hostel and walk around the barrio we were staying in. The hostel we stayed at was Sleep Cheapers. We paid $7 a night for breakfast and a nice room, what a great deal!
The next morning eight of us ventured out to take a 3 hour zip lining tour of Monte Verde. On the tour we did a few types of zip lining. The first was regular form, sitting in a harness. The next was the Tarzan Swing and the third was zip lining like "superman", arms out lying face down!
Superman
Later that day we decided to go hiking along one of the trails in the Cloud Forest.
We did the Caño Negro trail
Trees had been cut down in order to make a path. Within our classes we are learning about how the national parks have to make the parks accessible to tourists in order to fund the parks.
The trees were enormous and you could tell they had been around for hundreds of years. The tops of the trees reminded me of spider legs!
By the end of the 2 hour hike we were all beat. We headed back to the hostel, ate and napped and then bonded as a group all night. We left early the next morning at 6 am. Each weekend gets better and better since I've been here! My Spanish is improving because we need it to get by and also it's very nice to talk to the locals and here their opinions about Costa Rica.
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