San Gerardo de Rivas: Beautiful Hiking and an Escape from the Heat

Yet again, I am behind on my blogging. I meant to write this post quite a while ago, since it's been about a week and a half since I left San Gerardo de Rivas, but for some reason my motivation to write has been very low. I'm not sure why, maybe because the heat has been making me very lethargic and tired recently. I have lots of ideas for things I want to write about, and several half-written posts waiting to be finished, so now I'm finally putting in the effort to finish one. Hooray!

Observations of Costa Rica, Part II

I've been wanting to do another post about my observations of Costa Rica for weeks now, but I always seem to be catching up on my location-specific posts. Since I haven't been volunteering since I left Monteverde, I've been moving from place to place more often and don't have as much time to sit down and write or go into as much detail as I'd like. Now I have a bit more time though, so, in no particular order, here are some more of my observations of Costa Rica.

Quepos and Manuel Antonio National Park

Quepos was my next stop after leaving swelteringly hot Jaco (spoiler alert, the heat didn't get much better, if at all haha). My goal was to go to Manuel Antonio National Park, which I'd heard a lot about and, as far as I can tell, is the most popular national park in Costa Rica. I stayed with a Couchsurfing host named Pamela (my first female host in all of my Couchsurfing experience!), and her husband and parents, who were all very nice and welcoming. I had my own room with a private bathroom, which is always a huge bonus when Couchsurfing.