Arrival in Monteverde

The Monteverde area is hilly, with a lot of dirt roads. Most of the people either walk, ride dirt bikes, or 4-wheelers everywhere. There are several great restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and a grocery store within easy walking distance from our apartment and school. Our apartment is perfect! It sets on a hillside overlooking the heavily forested area of Santa Elena with the Gulf of Nicoya shining in the distance. Every day in the afternoon, there is vividly colored rainbow, sometimes double or triple, that paints its way over our apartment. Rolling clouds of mist tumble down the hillside, but never totally block our friend, the sun.