With half of our group heading back home and the other staying on for another five days, it was necessary to make a quick jaunt to the airport to drop off our departing comrades.
One unexpected taxi strike later left our quick trip stuck in sight of the airport with a road blocked by the cars of dozens of protesting drivers. Though in comparison to other strikes I’ve experienced, this one was minor as it lasted an estimated 45 minutes and caused few (if any) delays, and none for our group.
The drive from Liberia’s Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport to Tamarindo was a quick one through Costa Rica’s much drier Guanacaste Province. Costa Rica as a whole is in the top 5 world leaders in rainfall and the area can receive more in a heavy day’s rain than Santa Barbara county will in an entire year. That said, we experienced no rain throughout our entire 8 day trip which was unexpected and mildly bothersome seeing as I had just purchased a nice rain jacket and was eager to put it to the test.
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Tamarindo is a small beach town with something like 500 permanent residents, though it would be difficult to guess based on the number of shops and restaurants located along the main drive through. With its large contingent of tourists and our desire for a more low key stay, we were happy to find the bed and breakfast to be five minutes or so out of town in Playa Langosta.
Sueno del Mar came highly recommended to us as a quiet and charming place to stay with an amazing breakfast. Even with howler monkeys being their loud, howling selves at night it was quite easy continue our lazy days spent reading on the beach, eating food, and relaxing.
With work being a bit hectic in the weeks leading up to the trip, it was great to have a little over a week spent hardly thinking about it.
We spent most of our time beaching ten minutes away on the banks of a nice estuary in Langosta, but did take a day trip over to Playa Conchal to enjoy the stereotypical white sand beaches and blue waters. This was definitely the prettiest beach we saw during this visit and wasn’t much hassle to find either.
