Playa Sámara, Costa Rica

Playa Sámara is an OK beach, not too spectacular, we stayed for one night before moving on to Playa Guiones about 1 hour north.

Tutti Frutti, one of several bars / restaurants on the beach. This one is italian and has a nice outside area under a big tree on the beach.

Tutti Frutti ladies' room, thanks to MJ for valuable research

Rest. Las Brasas by the football field in Sámara. The food was not particularly good, and not as plentiful as we had hoped for. The service was just weird.

First and fanciest bar on the beach, we think it's called Snacks. They have a relatively impressive list of drinks, and prices are not bad compared to the alternatives.

Snacks WC

Bar Las Olas, perhaps the least fancy of the bars on the beach, but with a pool tables and a Fussball table which kind of works despite certain missing key players

We stayed at the Tico Adventure Lodge. Basic rooms with a/c and a balcony cost $40. The reviews at tripadvisor generally express satisfaction with the rooms and hatred towards the owner, who is claimed to be a very rude person. We talked to him for about 2 minutes, and although it was a very uncontrovertial conversation, he did appear to have a quite unpleasant personality. The rest of the staff were great, though.

Turrialba day 2: Pejivalle & Humo

Río Pejivalle @ el Humo

Río Pejivalle @ el Humo

Thriving automotive industry in Pejivalle

COOPEJIBAYE R.L.

Rio Pejivalle @ Pejivalle

Young baptists

La Cueva del Sapo, Clandestine bar in el Humo

La cueva del Sapo, interior details

La cueva del Sapo, WC entrance

La Cueva del Sapo WC

El Humo: cooking ladies and former football hero attending some kind of fund-raising.

WC @ el Humo

Little effort was made to find WCs on our second day in the Turrialba area. Partially because we spent a lot of time by the very clean Río Pejivalle, aka. Río Pejibaye, Río Pejiballe or Río Pejivaye. Spelling rules are somewhat diffuse, but it appears that Pejibaye is a fruit, Pejivalle is the town and that the name of the river can be spelled any way you like. The river is apparently a good one for rafting and kayaking, and the area is a new favourite of ours in Costa Rica.

Accommodation in Turrialba: Hotel Turrialba

Lost in translation:
WC = "odorless".

The famous odorless device.

10.000 colones for a very basic room with private bath and a fan. Not horribly expensive, but traffic noise was considerable and someone broke into our car during the night. Can't really blame the hotel for that, though.

Bars in Turrialba 7:Olé

Olé appeared to be the late night hotspot of Turrialba, a place where you go when the good places close. We have no complaints, though; there were fussball tables, decent music and even OK food. Still, nowhere near the quality of places like Filo's and Bar Rioja (where we, unfortunately, did not manage to take any pictures).