Onwards to Costa Rica

We hesitated between taking the 4am and the 5:45 am bus to leave the island, finally deciding on the more earthly hour of 5:45. So our alarms rang at 5:05 and we rolled out of our bunks, gathering up all the (still wet) laundry we had set out to dry the day before. It really isnt the smartest thing to expect your clothes to dry in a place with 110% humidity.

So we took the early bus to Altagracia where the Moyogalpa bus took us to the pier of the ferry that would take us to San Jorge which would connect to the minibus taking us to the Rivas bus station where we boarded our bus to the insanely malorganized border where we took another bus to the town of Liberia, finally in Costa Rica. Its like they don't want you to find the immigration office at the border. They try to hide it in the most unlikely places, and the victors, those who can actually find it and don't succum to the heat or the bloodsucking mosquitoes win the grand prize of having to pay a $3 exit fee and walking 500 more meters to repeat the same serach on the Costa Rican side of the compound.

In Liberia we hastily finalized our plans for the Cota Rica part of our trip and spent 3 hrs waitng at the bus stop for a bus to the national park that didnt come. We finally abandoned the idea of sleeping there tonight, and instead made our way into town and took a hotel for the night. Happy to finally have crossed, we went to buy tomorrow's lunch in a nearby supermarket- peanut butter & Jelly sandwiches and rosé wine. Mmmm.