Well, I was torn between calling the whole thing quits and lying around for the weekend watching tennis or actually doing something. Doing something has won. I have signed up for two trips at this url: http://www.costaricaguides.com/costa_rica_daily_tours_.html I am going on the San Lorenzo Canopy tour tomorrow. The lady assures me that I am not actually too fat and will not fall out of the trees. We will see...
On Sunday I have opted for the Combo Tour with a visit to a coffee plantation for breakfast followed by a volcano and a big waterfall. Will let you all know how they turn out.
Nothing else much to report. The bus trip back to San Jose was the "executive" class of the same company we took to Panama City. This time for $35.10 you got the aircon bus with toilet AND two meals. There was also a steward serving drinks the whole time. It was very much like a long haul flight without the nice hot towels.
There was a bit of human drama on the bus. We got stopped again for the same two passport checks in Panama. There was a woman who had two kids that got hauled in at one stop. She apparently didn't have the stamps she needed or something and the driver ended up taking up a collection to bribe someone or help her pay a fine, I am not sure which. ANYWAY, it took about an hour to sort everything out and get back on the road again. When we got to the border they made us all go into a room and line our bags up, they then used a sniffer dog (cute little cocker spaniel) before they made us pick up our bags and put them on tables for inspection. They checked them all over, many quite thoroughly. Then we had to line up about 45 minutes again while the woman and kids were inside before they finally gave us our exit stamps. Really, isn't it the problem of the country you are going to not the one you are leaving to bring on the sniffer dogs?
As Charles said, turnabout is fair play so when we got to the Costa Rican side of the border, we had to line our bags up again....they mustn't have had any sniffer dogs on standby because we had to wait for about 20 minutes before they came to inspect the bags by hand again. All tolled it took 2 hours to cross the border and another hour before we even got there. What a bunch of malarky. As I have mentioned ad nauseum I HATE BORDERS. Only the good old USA to come before we cross home into Canada.
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