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I've had breakfast with Christina (the german girl, but she's a psychologist living in Zürich) and Manuela (a medical doctor from St. Gallen) and met Christian and Julia, two more swiss (coincidence?), who also stayed in the same hotel and are going on to Tamarindo as well. We are picked up by a crappy little bus and set off for what will be a 6-7 hour trip to Tamarindo. It's not far, but the roads here suck ass, even the "Panamericana", which is the main road spanning the American continent from north to south is in an incredibly poor condition once you leave the outskirts of San Jose.
At half-time we change buses and drivers and get some really cool huge and colorful parrots that are happy to pose for us (see pic). On the way we even see a crocodile from a bridge (unfortunately poor picture quality). On the road we cross a couple of "construction sites", which basicly are simply missing parts of the road, in which we have to cross a riverbed. The "construction site" is very similar to german construction sites, with the sole difference that even the single guy who is actually working is missing. Here you just have the 10 guys standing around and supervising each other doing nothing. Pura Vida, as they say here.
While the others all go to guest families, I end up in the Wayra student house. I'm checking in with an american girl, Mandy, and have a good chat with her during my first typical Costa Rica food, the Casado. I've got a super-nice apartment for myself for the first two weeks on the top of the house ("Turmzimmer"), which - believe it or not - has an open-air shower (just the roof is open, no peepshow aqui).
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