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Our Year of Adventure
As much as we loved staying in the large house in Manuel Antonio, our time in Costa Rica is limited due to the 25 day visa we were given, it was time to move south. We weren't going too far, only a couple of hours down the coast. With a change of bus in Quepos, we were then able to catch a direct but very busy bus to Uvita.
Uvita is an unusual place, it's population would class it as a hamlet but it is very spread out. It's maybe 4 or 5km from one end at the base of the hills to the to the other end at the beach. Small as it is, it does have an excellent Information Centre and the girl was very helpful with telling us everything that we could do in the area and in the surrounding area further south. She also confirmed that Hotel Luz de Luna, one we had been thinking about, was a very good choice especially given the green season price.
We walked down a dirt road, towards the beach, for 200m and came to the hotel. The rooms are more like a motel, accessed by a ranch slider from the front. The rooms are small but very nice with AC, Cable TV and there is a good sized swimming pool.
After a quick dip in the pool, we walked down towards the beach. It turned out that the beach front at Uvita is all part of a National Park and we could only get there by paying the entrance fee. We decided to come back the next day because the tide was fully in and there actually wasn't any beach left to see, it comes right up to the jungle.
The hotel's restaurant had a wood fired spit for roasting chicken and it seemed only right to taste it. We weren't hungry enough to eat a whole one though so we opted for having chicken on a pizza. With a BBQ sauce base, jalapeños and loads of fresh coriander sprinkled on the top, it was a combination we'd never had before. It was very good and surprisingly even more tasty when we were told to put a bit of honey on. Who would think to put honey on a pizza?
Uvita is an unusual place, it's population would class it as a hamlet but it is very spread out. It's maybe 4 or 5km from one end at the base of the hills to the to the other end at the beach. Small as it is, it does have an excellent Information Centre and the girl was very helpful with telling us everything that we could do in the area and in the surrounding area further south. She also confirmed that Hotel Luz de Luna, one we had been thinking about, was a very good choice especially given the green season price.
We walked down a dirt road, towards the beach, for 200m and came to the hotel. The rooms are more like a motel, accessed by a ranch slider from the front. The rooms are small but very nice with AC, Cable TV and there is a good sized swimming pool.
After a quick dip in the pool, we walked down towards the beach. It turned out that the beach front at Uvita is all part of a National Park and we could only get there by paying the entrance fee. We decided to come back the next day because the tide was fully in and there actually wasn't any beach left to see, it comes right up to the jungle.
The hotel's restaurant had a wood fired spit for roasting chicken and it seemed only right to taste it. We weren't hungry enough to eat a whole one though so we opted for having chicken on a pizza. With a BBQ sauce base, jalapeños and loads of fresh coriander sprinkled on the top, it was a combination we'd never had before. It was very good and surprisingly even more tasty when we were told to put a bit of honey on. Who would think to put honey on a pizza?
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