Nicaragua here we come

While yesterday was all about relaxing and enjoying doing nothing, haha, today was about making arrangements for our next destination. Granada, Nicaragua. :-)

We’ve booked our hotel, Terrasol Hotel, which got really good reviews on tripadvisor.com, an awesome site we use all the time. Our room includes A/C (super important in 95 degree Granada), WiFi, breakfast (supposedly made by one of the owners who is a really good professional chef), and laundry service (we reeeally need laundry service now, haha) for $40 per night.

We also spent some time today figuring out our mode of travel options. Up till now we’ve been using this fantastic bus line here called Interbus which picks you up at your hotel and drops you off at your next one at your next destination. It’s really quick and comfortable and costs about $40 per person. Unfortunately it doesn’t go anywhere near where we need to go next. :-) Our only options to get to the Nicaraguan border from here are a Taxi, the local bus, or a rental car. A taxi we found out today would cost $180 so that was obviously out, haha. The local bus would require 3 transfers, has no A/C, would probably take a lot of extra travel time, and the seats are so tiny that Tyler’s legs would be all uncomfortably jammed up against the next seat up, picture a sweating 6’1” man in fetal position (we tested this out today) hahaha. A rental car amazingly cost only $80 at Alamo and they have an office in Penas Blancas (the border town), so we can just drop it off when we get there! It’s a very comfy efficient little Toyota Yaris and Tyler and I are SO happy that it’s so affordable as it will really make our lives easier tomorrow. I know $80 sounds like a lot for a rental, but compared to other companies this was the best deal (they all charge between $50-$100 to drop off at another location). We still will have to take the bus (a nice larger direct to Granada type one) once we cross into Nicaragua up to Granada but at least we will have avoided what would have been the worst part of the travel.

So we were just looking through our photos taken yesterday and there were only 3 taken, haha shows you how much we did. Two of the photos were of this scary looking huge cat (larger than any house cat I've ever seen) that I call Demon Cat, hahaha I seriously think he’s part tiger or something. The other photo was of the towel art that we came back to in our room. At the end of our trip I’m going to make a blog post showing all the hilarious and awesome towel art that we’ve gotten in our hotel rooms. :-)

We also tonight caught our last Costa Rican sunset on camera.