After trying a couple of restaurants, we finally found a good place for Casado, the typical lunch in Costa Rica!
Although most places take credit card and US dollar, we decided to take some cash out from ATM.
Aaron comes out and say “we are rich!”
Well, not really. 100,000 colones is about $200. Things are NOT as cheap as we thought. We can easily spend $20 for lunch and other than fruits, things are about the same price at super markets. These must be tourist prices. Average Costa Rican makes about $5000/year, so everything should be cheaper, but they are not.
On the way back to hotel, we saw a cart full of milk!
The hotel owner told us that there used to be a lot more dairy farmers, but a lot of them sold their land to hotel owners or turned them into hotels themselves, so now the Monteverde cheese factory has to get milk from farmers outside of Monteverde.
The first place we went was Monteverde. We rented a 4WD SUV to drive there from San Jose. After driving on paved roads for 2.5 hrs, we stop by and have lunch. Roads are mostly on lane with occasional passing lane. Not sure if they have traditional food or not…
Stopped by after 2.5 hrs of driving from San Jose
Now we keep going to Monteverde…
After 1.5 hrs of unpaved roads, we arrive at Mariposa B&B! We followed GPS’s direction, but we are not sure if it was the best way or fastest way…
Cute! They serve breakfast here. A friendly cat greeted us.
We check in and walk into our room and there is a cute towel origami on our bed! We can see some wild life right in front of our room, too.
They have 3 rooms with a double and single bed in each room. The bathroom is tiny. NO room to put bathroom stuff at all. Extra hangers would be good…
It only rained once for about 20 min today. It is not as bad as we thought…
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