The old pope died
Jan 20th, 2008 by enroute
…during the time, when my brother was doing a volunteership in the area of Acosta, a canton south of San José. Before we left for our journey, he gave us a letter for the people he was staying with and that is why we were heading to Acosta, after we left San José yesterday.
We first took a bus (everything seems to be so “western” and modern now, that we are back from Nicaragua) to San Ignacio, and than hitch hiked to a place called Chirraca.
Here, we found a lodge, advertising itself as an ecological tourist center. Unfortunately, we couldn´t find the ecological part of it. We found out, that my brother has been staying at three different places, but nobody could give us understandable directions to those places, so we left the letter with the family who is runing the lodge. They remembered my brother well.
Today, we continued our journey. Since we left the bikes in San José, we were able to hitch hike and so we travelled the dusty backcountry roads, from San Ignacio to Orotina, half way to the pacific coast.
We got rides by some pick-ups and some other, partly open 4WDs. It was a very nice trip through the mountainous area of the Highlands, heading west.