Mother's Day.
I caught a bus from Coca-Cola in San Jose - very dodgy neighbourhood ("lots of crack smokers", said an old American guy I met in the hostel. He also recommended a good brothel to me).
Got to Jaco by noon and asked a woman (Celeste) on the bus for directions to a good hostel, and she ended up giving me my first Costa Rican coffee, along with Jocato, a weird fruit that would be almost impossible to explain. It had an almost powdery texture, about the size of a lime, and was quite sweet. I also met her pet parrot, who had some kind of infection/rash/parasite, so had scratched a lot of its belly-feathers off with its beak. But like a child it refused its medicine.
Celeste is studying to be a nurse, involving getting up at 5 and taking the bus to San Jose three days a week. I'll try to appreciate my Halls of Residence.
Also in Jaco I did a Canopy Tour, involving 12 ziplines from platform to platform in the treetops. I saw a White-Faced Monkey, a Chicle Tree and a huge Banana Spider. Tried surfing for the first time in CR - choppy waves, very hard work. I need to buy a rashvest!
