There is lots of things to do in Monteverde. From zip-lining over the forest (you descend attached to a cable from platform to platform down from the hill, sometimes at speeds up to 60 Km/hour), to night-hiking trips, to coffee trips and birth trips. All these trips cost anywhere between 15 and 45 US Dollar. When I went to bed yesterday, some guys invited me to go for a hike on one of the only free hikes there, which they organized themselves. Around 8:30, after having breakfast and coffee, we left with 8 people and started walking. It started off on a hiking trail that was 4 meters wide until we came accross a sign warning us not to leave the tracks. It was placed in what seemed to be a small, dry river so after a short discussion we decided to follow the advice and stay on the hiking trail/road. After a hefty climb for 500 meters, one of the guys stopped us and opened the debate again, saying he couldn't believe this was the hiking path we were supposed to take. I told him I wasn't sure about it, but if he was going to take that route, I was going to do the same. 4 people decided to go on and us 4 went back down to try our luck on that trail. After only 2 meters it was already obvious that the river wasn't a river but the trail we were looking for. It led us straight into the jungle along a little river that surprised us from time to time with a beautiful waterfall from sometimes up to 15 meters high. Numerous time the path forked and after a while it became more like a joke choosing one, because no one had a clue where we were heading and sometimes we doubted if we even were on a path. One of the guys of this company had to return after a while because he booked for another trip in the afternoon. Two of us decided to go on and the other two turned back. After a while going on along sometimes track, sometimes not we ended up on probably the road we took at first. We sta
rted following that for a while which was physically probably the heaviest part of the track as it seemed to go up and up and up. After a while my company said he thought of turning back because this walking up on a road that probably didn't lead anywhere, didn't make any sense to him. I thought I should trust my gut and keep on going for a while (after all my intuition had been wrong all the time so statistically it had more chance of being right this time. Not so much later we arrived at a couple of tv-towers which made a lot of noise because of the wind blowing through them.
We walked past a building in which Steve, the son of the responsible for the tv station up here, was playing World of Warcraft while listening to Slipknot. Since the door was open, we asked if there was anything up here or if this was where he lived. He answered the latter and invited us to have tea or coffee which was an unexpected but very pleasant surprise.
There is lots of things to do in Monteverde. From zip-lining over the forest (you descend attached to a cable from platform to platform down from the hill, sometimes at speeds up to 60 Km/hour), to night-hiking trips, to coffee trips and birth trips. All these trips cost anywhere between 15 and 45 US Dollar. When I went to bed yesterday, some guys invited me to go for a hike on one of the only free hikes there, which they organized themselves. Around 8:30, after having breakfast and coffee, we left with 8 people and started walking. It started off on a hiking trail that was 4 meters wide until we came accross a sign warning us not to leave the tracks. It was placed in what seemed to be a small, dry river so after a short discussion we decided to follow the advice and stay on the hiking trail/road. After a hefty climb for 500 meters, one of the guys stopped us and opened the debate again, saying he couldn't believe this was the hiking path we were supposed to take. I told him I wasn't sure about it, but if he was going to take that route, I was going to do the same. 4 people decided to go on and us 4 went back down to try our luck on that trail. After only 2 meters it was already obvious that the river wasn't a river but the trail we were looking for. It led us straight into the jungle along a little river that surprised us from time to time with a beautiful waterfall from sometimes up to 15 meters high. Numerous time the path forked and after a while it became more like a joke choosing one, because no one had a clue where we were heading and sometimes we doubted if we even were on a path. One of the guys of this company had to return after a while because he booked for another trip in the afternoon. Two of us decided to go on and the other two turned back. After a while going on along sometimes track, sometimes not we ended up on probably the road we took at first. We sta
rted following that for a while which was physically probably the heaviest part of the track as it seemed to go up and up and up. After a while my company said he thought of turning back because this walking up on a road that probably didn't lead anywhere, didn't make any sense to him. I thought I should trust my gut and keep on going for a while (after all my intuition had been wrong all the time so statistically it had more chance of being right this time. Not so much later we arrived at a couple of tv-towers which made a lot of noise because of the wind blowing through them. 
We walked past a building in which Steve, the son of the responsible for the tv station up here, was playing World of Warcraft while listening to Slipknot. Since the door was open, we asked if there was anything up here or if this was where he lived. He answered the latter and invited us to have tea or coffee which was an unexpected but very pleasant surprise.
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