The best shower ever!
Hi all
We have just arrived in the beautiful Country of Costa Rica after 5 days in Panama, the first things we did when arriving at our hostel were buy and cook food containing fresh vegetables and also have a very welcomed hot shower each!
We left Panama City a day early having only stayed a night due to the heat and atmosphere we decided it would be much nicer to head to Boca del Toro on the Caribbean cost, so we took our usual over night bus and arrived in Bocas del Toro at around 6am the next day, we jumped on a water taxi and then we were at our destination Aqua Lounge hostel and bar, on the website it had looked amazing and although quiet it was living up to expectation, we went to the beach (Ben had a surf), had some breakfast, and a much needed shower before strolling around and generally relaxing and enjoying ourselves.
The problems started a bit later on when feeling hot and sweaty from the very strong heat I decided to take a quick show only thing is it turns out the showers don’t work most of the time infact we didn’t get another shower. By the next day we were starting to feel the desperation of clean bodies so bought a gallon bottle of drinking water and washed our hair etc with that.
It wasn’t the best 3 days of the trip but…Costa Rica is beautiful, we were dropped of in the dodgy part of town and managed to get stalked by a beggar until we got in a taxi but since arriving at the hostel we are both very happy people.
Crossing over the border was really interesting once you have been stamped by Panama officials you have to walk over a disused train track bridge (driven over by your coach) which is a slight health and safety risk (its falling apart) and then get stamped by Costa Rican officials which request proof of return to Panama or proof you will be leaving costa rica in the near future!
Anyway safe and sound in San Jose, going to look around tomorrow and then off to the beautiful place called Santa Teresa and what looks like the nicest hostel yet!
Miss you all
Charlie xxx
