Arrived at airport in Liberia, Costa Rica about 1:30 pm 21st of November, Monday. In quick order and on Shawns advice I hopped a bus for less than a $1 to the city/town of Liberia where I was to meet Shawn, 100 mts north by 25 mts west of the destination terminal, at some hostel, which I had conveniently forgot to write the name of down.
Currency exchange:
400 Colones ~== $1 USD
-bus ride from airport: 320 C
-bus ride from terminal de busas to frontera: 1400 C (3.5 USD)
Travel luck on my side - my bag which I reluctantly checked made it to Liberia. After I thought about it, bad idea. It would have been a royal pain to try to track down that bag had it not arrived. Made it to the terminal walked north and found Shawn outside. Meet a guy named Marc from Montreal on the bus and we helped him out with some translation and left him at the hostel Shawn had stayed and then off to the Frontera - the town right before the border with Nicaragua.
Got exit stamp and then walked over the border to Nicaragua immigration checkpoint. Paid: $12USD for entry.
Getting the typical run around not to take the bus from the local 'drivers' at the border and how its cheaper and easier to just take their taxi for around $30.
Found a bus that went directly to Granada for $10 USD a piece and easy as that.
Nice bus - turned out to be tourist group bus of some kind that had gone over the border - showed the movie Contagion as I passed out for a bit on the end of the guitar.
Time very strange how its passing. Maybe from some type of traveling jet lag mixed with some kind of excitement. But mostly probably just the strangeness of a new land and not know much of anything about what going ON. Bus to frontera maybe an hour or two. And the bus from Frontera to Granada maybe about the same.
Eventually go to Granada, dark, and eventually found the hostel in Granada that Shawn had make some type of reservations at. Hostel de Mochillas. $7 USD per person for the private room.
Hit the town for a tad - $418 ($19USD) Cordoba for 4 Victoria beers and 2 fajitas meals
Currency Exchange - Nicaragua:
22 Cordoba ~= $1 USD
Got to bed before midnight - a little rung out after a solid day of traveling. Not bad for day.
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