We entered Costa Rica coming from Nicaragua. The plan for this country is that Kim's parents will visit us for nearly two weeks. We will cycle down to San Jose, the capital, and pick them up at the airport. They rented a car so we don't gonna use the bikes the time their here in Costa Rica. Around San Jose we have to find a place where we safely can store our bikes. We ended up storing our bikes in a hostel close to the airport.
From here on read the comments underneath the pictures.

Balbo's. Runned by Edward, Wilma and Diego from Holland. They started last summer and turned the garage which was in here before into a restaurant for locals and travelers who travel between Costa Rica & Nicaraqua. They made it from nearly nothing into this!

A lot of overlanders stop at this place because there are nearly any restaurants or so ever in this area in North Costa Rica. From Left to Right: Edward the owner, cyclist Nick from the UK who stopped by for a breakfast, and us who stayed here a few nights.

Along the Balbo's restaurant is a river. There should be crocodiles in this river they told us but they are not dangaurous as long you don't bother the youghones.

Two Polish cyclists. Overlanders are supposed to write down something on the restaurant walls. In just a few months time the walls are pretty filled up already.

We also filled up the walls a little. Maybe hard to see but that's a good reason to go for yourself and check it out π

On the road again. These signs are all over Central America. We only laugh at them and cycle along. Everybody is walking and cycling everywhere. The signs are just a waste.

When we are in search for a place to stay for the night a minivan stops by and the driver tells us he is the owner of a restaurant/rafting company. He invites us to stay for the night behind his restaurant.

After the flat tire at the fruit market is fixed we cycle just 5 minutes and Arjan has another flat tire.

At the end of the day we end up at a parking where we are aloud to camp aswell. Nice spot along the beach.

At the parking they have two parrots. They where talking a lot. Sometimes you couldn't make the difference between a human or the parrots talking.

After two nights along the beach we move on. In just a few days Kim's parents will arrive on San Jose Airport for a 12day visit.

From the coast to San Jose it's a long climb up. From sea level to 1000m. Halfway the climb we end up in a small bar asking they know a place for us to stay for the night. They tell us in the park opposite the street we can camp safely. We thank for the advice and order a beer.

One of the guys you see on the previous picture is so drunk he can't walk anymore. His friends drop him in his car where he falls asleep straight away.

When we leave the small village again we pass the famous brigde the bartender was talking about yesterday.

At least we can take some pictures of it. From here it's not far anymore to San Jose. Kim's parents will arrive tonight.

Parents picked up, car picked up and checked in at their hotel. Now organize everything and have a good sleep after such a long flight.

Good to see eachother again after 10 months. At an American Style bar we have long conversations about everything happend back in Holland and about our adventures over here.

After another night close to San Jose we move on to the coast. Along the way we pass a river with huge crocodiles.

The Buddha House. Our basecamp for the coming few nights. From here we will discover the area around.

Once a year there is an international scouting game going on called iScout. The iScout is an online game played by scouting groups all over the world. Our scouting group in Almelo, Holland joins the game with about twenty people this year. We help them with the online part of the game.

The clue of the game is to do funny challanges, earn questions with beated challenges and earn final points with every good answered question. The challanges are mostly group challenges so we can't do these out here but we can help with the online questions. For us it is fun to speak group members again and see them doing the challanges.

Challange: Make a picture from someone abroad in another country with a famous building. Although it's not a famous building we were able to help with this challange.

Challange: Create cookies with the iScout logo. There were many many more challanges, we're not gonna bother you with here.

We finished 183the out of 477 groups. Not to bad π Hey guys thanks for having fun together and see you again live in a few months!!!

The next day a visit to NP Manuel Antonio is planned. The park is famous because the loads of different wildlife.

Yes we did aslo take a swim. We hanged our luggage in the trees agains the racoons. (Flash back to Alaska and Canada π )

Ready for another National Park. Wet forrest and dry forrest in one park together. We wanna check it out.

Looking up for the tropical birds we hear all around us. They are hard to spot because the trees are dense.

The path is going this way over the old bridge. The bridge is closed because it's to dangerous so we pass through the dry river.

Beautifull animals. The fun thing is. They are free to go and fly around all the time but they keep coming back to their home.

The day after we visit another small but very touristic village. We check out the shops and hang around at the beach.

A lot of venders come along trying to sell stuff. This lady is lucky and is able to sell us some of her goods.

Time to say good by again. We did like it a lot that you both came over these days. See you soon again!

We go from one visit to another. In about a month Arjan's daughter Maud will come over in Ecuador. Because we can't cycle through four countries in one month we have to take the bus on some parts to be on time in Ecuador. We've bin in Costa Rica for a while already so we take the bus straight from San Jose to the border with Panama. From the border we will pick up the cycling again.

At the border we find a bed to sleep in at Hotel Asia. Low budget but not runned by Asian people as you might expect.

They welcome us at the Hotel Asia with music from Holland. Or at least, they think it's from Holland. It's just a crappy but positive song from our German neighbours π
Edward
Tnhank you for visiting us! We shall meet again!
Edward & Vilma (balboβs)
Trudie
Prachtige foto’s weer wat beleven jullie toch mooie avonturen!en wat heerlijk dat je je ouders even bij je had Kim.
Inmiddels is Bert aan z’n camino begonnen sinds zondag.
Hij loopt van Vezelay naar Santiago de Compostela als alles goed gaat hoopt hij er drie maand over te doen!
Hartelijke lente groet uit Zuna van Trudie ?
2WF
Hi Trudie, Wat gaaf! Wens Bert veel plezier en succes toe! Kunnen we hem ook nog ergens volgen online?