Malpais

So about 3 hours after traveling in a van down the most difficult roads but with the most beautiful scenery by far that I have seen traveling in Costa Rica we finally made it to our destination: Malpais. I understand why they call this place Malpais; it translates to bad lands. This place is not for the person who wants to do many activities, but if you like wide open beaches that are basically secluded with mountains on one side and rugged terrain on the other, then this place is for you. It is basically a surfer’s dream. If I could surf I would be in heaven. Probably some of the best waves that I have seen out of all the places so far, it even beats the waves from the surf competition in playa Hermosa. We asked to get dropped off at this place that was recommended by a guy from the hostel in Tamarindo called Tranquilo Backpackers. We walked up to the desk and asked for a room, and the next thing we knew we were on the second a of the hostel. We had the dorm room to ourselves but we had no fan or air conditioning but the place was really cool. It had a big open kitchen, ping pong tables, pool tables, and hammocks all over the place. We only spent a few hours at the beach, because we wanted to catch the USA vs Mexico game. We walked around to we found a place with a tv, but to our surprise it was not be broadcasted. The Costa Rica vs Honduras game was being shown at 7 that night. We went back to the hostel and read our books while laying in the hammock and occasionally dozing off swinging back and forth slowly in the unforgiving heat of the southern tip of peninsula in Costa Rica. Later after relaxing we took showers; why we did? I really do not know because it was basically pointless. We walked around looking for some place that was reasonable priced for dinner and we came across the place where I have had the best meal since I’ve been here. They cooked over a huge open fire pit where I can’t comprehend how the cooks could do that since it was about 100 degrees outside. They made the best roasted chicken and even mashed potatoes. I definitely ate all of my food. Afterwards, we found a sports bar down the street that was showing the Costa Rica soccer game; of course Emily and I were the only girls in the whole place. We didn’t care because we really just wanted to watch the soccer game. Costa Rica played awful so we didn’t finish watching the game, in addition to the sun taking all of our energy out of us from earlier that day we made our way back to the hostel. We ended up trying to go to bed, but with the heat the way it was made it nearly impossible but on another note we had to leave for Jacó at like 6:30 in the morning. We decided to skip Montezuma because we wanted to spend more time in Jacó in addition to the fact that we could stay at my mama tica’s house for free. Hasta pronto…