Pura Vida - Our Costa Rican Adventure

Costa Rica 2010-2011, Centro Americano. Adventures and travels of Greg L. Miller and Kelly Carter-Miller. We are posting the second part of the story. Once a week there will be new posts for anyone who might be interested. PURA VIDA. Thanks and enjoy!

Chapter V: The Caribbean and the Jungle

Filed Under : by Greg L. Miller
Saturday, August 7, 2010

As we near the end of the epoch, lush jungles loom around us. The beauty of the land escalates as the jungle shows us wildlife and adventure. The people are harder edged and long gone is the playfulness attitude of the Tico's from the Pacific. Within this bubble exists its own culture, time seems to be somewhere locked in the 1980's. The jungle strives to retake civilization and communities band together to survive. As mentioned earlier this summer Costa Rica has no standing army and only 60,000 cops. Its in between Panama and Nicaragua and has a strong Colombian drug culture, needless to say there is unrest in Centro Americano. Aside that there is peace and the people are vibrant. Our place is located in Playa Chiquita, right near Panama. Are landlords own the property and live and run one of the highest ranking restaurants in the region.
Our house in the background. Poppy and Yamu, our landlords, fed us daily during our first week of emergencies. The ATM didn't work and they let us have a tab until the towns telecommunications were up. Their restaurant is called Jungle Love.
Going up to the house. The garden around the house has home grown plants for the restaurant, the jungle and many plants. We have local monkeys and toucans in the front yard. We have maids and gardeners which is standard in Costa Rica.
Our house is the green one.
You can say hi to the the howler monkeys in the morning and evening.
Going inside our jungle house is amazing.
Right near the kitchen we have a rock garden with pet grasshoppers the size of your hand.
There is a Jacuzzi near the steps. It broke down but should be fixed by the time we leave. Kelly got to use it once.
There are glass windows with many lizards on them when you walk up the stairs.
Upstairs we have the master bedroom wiht a television set and hundreds of dvd's. We have a patio and a second bathroom with a very cool washbasin.
Outside there are many spiders and exotic plants. Walking to the beach means walking through the jungle. The jungle isn't easy to navigate for at times you need to walk over planks and balance on two by fours or the mud will suck you down. There are many crabs and reggae being played in people's homes. Walking to the beach feels like gym class.
Finally after long navigating and watching out for poisonous critters we make it to the beach.
  There are reefs where you can snorkel with the fish. I find myself bobbing in the waves while I meditate.
After I get my fill I wander back to the jungle house and play with the critters. We also have toucans.
Note both the lizard and the giant grasshopper in the same picture. Its a very nice place and its wild to be the middle of the jungle. We are down to our last two weeks and will be seeing a jaguar refuge shortly.


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