We've been in the mountains of Costa Rica and what a world of difference.
We had our last breakfast this morning in the Bed and Breakfast we stayed in for our last week in Samara. At our place setting was a big bag of homemade popcorn! Little did we know how useful that little gift would be in the coming days! After breakfast, we said our goodbyes, Guillermo picked up our rental car then we loaded it up and started on the drive to Liberia where we would be meeting Fernando and Eva. Eva just got back to Liberia from Iowa yesterday and the two of them were waiting for us to arrive at their hotel.
When we got to their hotel, we unloaded our biggest suitcases and we stored them in the hotel's office, along with two of Eva's bags. Then we drove back out towards the airport where the car rental office is so that we could put Fernando also as a driver on the car and then we ate at a nice open air restaurant before heading up to the mountains and Tenorio Volcano National Park.
It's not too far of a drive to the National Park from Liberia, but along the way, as soon as we felt the air was cooler outside, we shut off the car's air conditioner, opened the windows of the car and how nice it was to be in cooler weather! We drove to the Heliconias Hotel, but they had told us we'd be staying in a cabin, so they gave us the keys to it and we drove over to our little place. We took all our stuff out of the car, placed it all inside the cabin, then decided to do one of the smaller hikes around the Heliconias Hotel. Before we went out on that small hike, though, one of the employees wanted to take us a short distance on another trail to show us an owl that was in a tree so we went with him and sure enough there was a Crested Owl sitting in a tree. His back was to us, but he had his head swiveled around keeping an eye on us.
After hiking the short Heliconias trail, we had dinner at the hotel and then drove back to our cabin for the evening.
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