Monteverde was on our list of places to go from the beginning of the trip. It’s a small town in Costa Rica near to several national parks famed for their cloud forests (high altitude rainforest). Chris visited on his travels 21 years ago and was keen to return.
We spent four nights in Monteverde Town, originally we’d planned three but we liked it so much we stayed an extra night! It was a good amount of time to see a lot and get a feel for the place.
To get there from La Fortuna we booked ourselves seats on the ‘jeep-boat-jeep’ transfer. This turns out to be ‘minibus-boat-minibus’ in reality as I suspect the roads have improved from when it was first offered! It was a really nice way to travel, going straight across Lake Arenal it cut down the journey time significantly compared to travelling by road. We ended up sat with Mark, who we’d had dinner with in La Fortuna, so that was nice to catch up again.
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