Day 11 - Puerto Jimenez

I slept into until about 7:30 (late for me!) and took a walk around town. Puerto Jimenez is more of a tico town - opposed to other places that seem to have most businesses catering to the tourist. There are clothing and appliance stores, a library, community center, hospital, a large modern supermarket that sells everything form food to pots and glassware. I guess since Puerto jimenez is a bit isolated (the neareat big town is over an hour away) they really need to be somewhet self sufficent.

Later we ate an inexpensive breakfast at Carolina's which probably the most popular restaurant in town. It's centrally located and had good prices and delicious food.





After going back to the hotel to change into our swimsuits we drove around the airstrip to Playa Planteranas. Once there we pretty much had the entire beach to ourselves only seeing some Tico kids in the distance playing in the water. There were some black clouds coming but it didn't rain and the cloud cover actually cooled things down a bit making the weather perfect. While on the beach was saw some scarlet macaws flying overhead and then again saw some in a tree.






After the beach we checked out the supermarket (Named BM super)and met a guy from California named "Rasta Steve" - a friendly guy who was living in Matapalo. We went back to the hotel and, because it was so good, had the mole chicken enchiladas again for dinner. Pablo came out to talk to us and, since tomorrow was his day off, offered to take us to a 30 meter waterfall in Matapalo tomorrow - very cool!