We’ve made it to Costa Rica. We took a Tica bus from Rivas to San Jose. The border we went through between Costa and Nicaragua was just rediculous. We probably waited 2 hours to check passports and bags (99% of the bags were not checked) so it was a waste of time, but it has to happen. We found a great place and met up with Ben, Melanie, Josh and Cassidy at the Interamericano hotel. On the way to the hotel a guy in a rafting shirt asked us if we wanted to do any rafting, of course we did and he set everything up. Our main guide and operator of Costa Rica Extreme was Manuel Segura Amador and he along with another guide, Alex, set us up with a trip down the  Reventazon - Pascua section which is a class 3-4+ run that takes about 3 hours or so. It was amazing with great rapids the whole run down.  We only had 2 swimmers though, I thought there would be more.
Tomorrow 6 people are leaving to go home and those remaining will be doing a 2 day rafting trip down the popular Pecuare river. We will be staying at a little place on the side of the river. I’m not sure if it will be tent camping or if we’ll be staying at a native run lodge on the side of the river. The scenery is great here and the Pecuare seems to be regarded as one of the most beautiful rivers in all of Central America. Having not done many rivers here (1 to be exact) I think I will be unable to judge for myself!

We have some pictures from the rafting trip so I will try to post those as soon as I can! For now the trip is winding down/done for most people but I still have 2 weeks and unless I do more rafting I think I will be heading to the Caribbean coast and heading into Panama from Sixaola.