San Jose, Costa Rica

After a long but beautiful bus trip to the capital city we met our friend Franscisco that we met in Tulum that one night we slept on the beach. He's really sweet and we stayed at his house. His mates and us went out for a few drinks to celebrate meeting again and to have a proper send-off to Michael, who is leaving at the crack of dawn.

Franscisco made us a wonderful Colombian breakfast, a kind of soup with eggs, potato and coriander.

We met a Korean! It was fantastic, we had soju, spoke Korean and reminiced about that wonderful country. We had a great night out and met a Costa Rican girl who had visited South Africa. It was all in all a great night. The next morning Mike left, and we slept in. We wanted to leave Costa Rica, as we are spending more time in Central America than we planned for, but the digsmates convinced us we can't leave Costa Rica quite yet. Franscisco helped us buy bus tickets to our next destination, while we walked through markets, streets filled with restaurants and coffee shops and watch kids being arrested for selling drugs. Just a normal day in San Jose!