Do you know the way to San Jose?

The term "Adventure Tour" started to wear a bit thin after getting off the chicken boat expecting to jump straight onto the bus to San Jose and then finding that they didn't have our booking. This lead to a two and half hour wait by the side of the road not knowing if there would be a bus that we could get on. After hassling the bus company rep a lot she guaranteed that we would get on the 9:20am bus, which didn't arrive until after 10am just as we were started to get really annoyed.

After 45 minutes on the bus we reached the Costa Rica border and unlike the other borders where we pretty much rocked straight through, we all had to get off the bus, line up and get our passport stamped individually. Doesn't sound too bad but we were slow off the bus and this meant we were near the back of the queue and it took us almost an hour to get through. We were pained, by watching some of the others sitting in the cafe on the other side with food and cold drinks (it was really hot and the cold drinks looked so good!).

Once we crossed the border it was a nice five hour bus ride to San Jose. Luckily most of the films they played were in English, which was good except for that fact they showed Evan Almightly which we've seen on this trip about 10 times before.

When we arrive at the hotel thinking our travelling had finished, we were told that we had been booked into their sister hotel just around the corner. So gathering up our bags we all marched around to the new hotel. The only saving grace was that our new hotel was nicer than the original.

We rounded out the day with a really good meal and several beers at Cafe Mundo just across the road from our hotel.