Day 2: “Camino de Costa Rica”

Delicious “Gallo pinto“, which is a Costa Rica national dish. It’s beans and rice, and a few herbs mixed together. It’s typically a breakfast meal. This one came with some cheese, a slice of ham, fried egg, and a tostada like thing.

En route on day 2. With Jairo Fallas, my guide.

View back to the Caribbean Ocean

Looking back for our last view at the Caribbean ocean before we leave it behind

Blue Morpho butterfly with it's wings closed.  Inside it is a beautiful blue color.

Bullet ant

Frog, brown. OK I know it has a real name, I can’t think of it right now.

Day 2, the trail starts to get a little muddy

The mud starts here on day two

Loaded chicken and everything quesadilla for lunch

Our accommodations for the evening on day two, the public school at Las Brisas. We set up tents and basically camp inside the school. The power was out, so we read some and went to bed like at 8 o’clock. Fortunately, there was enough water left in the tanks to shower and do normal stuff.

My accommodations for Day 2. Yes, it’s a tent inside of a school room, up in the mountains, where we were at. The power was out as well, so no lights or anything, but we had some water still left in the tanks.

Ok, the shower at the school in Las Brisas, was, well, a little basic. The whole massive spiderweb and the gigantic spiders outside the shower made sure you didn’t waste any time. But, a cold water shower after you’ve been sweating all day is pretty dang amazing, regardless of how humble it may be!

These spiders at the Las Brisas School were HUGE. About the size of your palm. And there were plenty of them… Being tall, definitely has some disadvantages, one of the biggest one is that you’re always running into spiderwebs. Freaky when you look up and the spider is BIG

Each of these spiders is about the size of the palm of your hand, they are not your little, run-of-the-mill spiders, these are huge.

Christian church in Las Brisas. You’ll notice the Jesus Christ image at the top, and then the king vulture, and the jaguar, which are sacred to the indigenous tribes here.