Monkeys are walking around in the trees outside our hotel room, making yelping noises. Pretty strange to see wild monkeys who are close enough to see you and be aware of your presence and also not care that you're watching them. The hammock on the porch of our hotel cabin has a pretty good view of them.Then at breakfast there's another monkey (the one with the white face) about 20 feet away watching us eat. Kinda crazy - the brochures talk about the wild monkeys but I'm a sceptical person and at first assume it's hype to promote the area as tropical. Nope. There really are monkeys at the restaurants and hotels.
We relaxed after getting into Montezuma, talking on the porch - reading and walking around town to check things out. And by "Town" in Montezuma I mean about 20 stores and restaurants. We ate dinner at a kitchy ex-pat place that plays movies in English on a projector screen - brilliant fruit shakes. We're drinking a fruit shake with every meal, this is the way it works for Costa Ricans.
"Pura Vida" is this concept in Costa Rica - pure life. They greet each other by saying this. It's kinda like saying "ah, this is the good life." It also has some part of a pure - natural way of things.
So after spilling out of dinner we walked to the center of town and there was an impromptu rave that broke out in the street. Surreal, especially because of the ex-pat and hippy (think people with dreadlocks who couln't fight their way out of a hemp seed oil lined paper bag) influence. I think it was some beverage company promoting their drink - but whatever it was kinda cool. Old surfers and children and tourists and just a random group of probably 150 people all dancing to Bob Marley and some house music in the street having a good time.
Anyways, canopy tour and zip lines later today to waterfalls we can jump off.
