Becca and I spent Sunday through Thursday relaxing at the up and coming little beach town of Montezuma, on the southeast nub of the Nicoya Pennisula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The beach town was a bit hippy and had several loud restaurants, but the beach experience was still enjoyable.
We stayed in the very natural-feeling Amor del Mar hotel and enjoyed very nice views of the crashing waves from the community balcony. Across from our hotel into the rainforest were three waterfalls that I describe a bit more in the next article.
We awoke many mornings to the sounds of howler monkeys...
We ate pizza one day on the balcony of a local pizza shop (interestingly, there are many pizzerias in CR) and saw several LARGE iguanas. They seemed oblivious to us as they climbed trees and walked on the ground below our table The photo really doesn´t do justice - the creature was at least two feet long! Jenson Driskell - this one´s for you! :)We were a five minute walk from the hub of little Montezuma, and the distance was just enough to keep away the unwanted noise while letting the wanted sound of ambient water filter in: one side of our room had waterfalls resounding outside and the other side had the ocean. I love water, so that was pretty cool! (And to think that the location was just another simple fact of life in Costa Rica...wow...)
Becca and I were surprised that not too many people were taking to the beach, mostly because of the comparatively strong tides. Many people had surf boards and were heading to beaches south of us, which was fine w/ us since it was quieter. We´re not really surfers, but we´re thinking about trying body-boarding at Manuel Antonio... I should have had Preston teach me some things...
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