More surf, different beach!

Troels was invited by his danish friend living in Costa Rica to go to Tamarindo, and since we had the week off before our first performance with Tempos, surf and relax on the beach would be the best warm up ;) In addition to the two danish guys already in Costa Rica Troels got a visit from another danish friend, so I was going to travel with 3 danish guys :)

Because of two different online bus schedules we arrived the bus station 3 hours before the bus was leaving. During our wait I showed our new danish guy, Martin, downtown San José. Obviously they started to celebrate the new year and they had a parade with a lot of their traditional carretas.

After several hours on a not so comfortable bus we finally arrived Tamarindo to see the sunset!

There were more people on the beach to watch the sunset :)

Christian is living in Costa Rica and he loves to go to the beach and surf. Every morning we would walk to another beach he knew, Playa Langosta, which was better to surf and with less people.

The first morning we got up to surf at about 6am! It was soo early, but soo worth it. When we were warming up on the beach we saw a huge whale jumping up from the water!!

There were a few good waves to practice my surfing ;)

When there were no waves we would just have fun in the water...

...or practice sitting on the board waiting for the waves :p

In the evenings we would make a bon fire on the beach and enjoy the sunset ;)

It was amazing, and to give you a sense of what I'm experiencing I made this time lapse.

Surf's up in Santa Teresa!!

After 3 days with gymnastics in Palmares Troels and I decided we wanted to relax at the beach. We drove to Puntarenas to catch the ferry for the Nicoya peninsula, and continued to Santa Teresa! 

Santa Teresa is newly known for its white-sand beaches and world class surf ;) Our first day we walked kilometers of the white beach from Playa Carmen all the way up Playa Santa Teresa, and it was so nice and relaxed!

Of course we had to do some gymnastics on the beach. Further up you find Playa Hermosa and Playa Manzanillo!

After a long walk we found a perfect spot to hang up my hammock and rest at the beach :)

Most of the days were spent on the beach relaxing and surfing, so we didn't bring valuables. That's why we don't have too many pictures from this trip. Never the less we met with some locals who invited us to dinner and a party. It was lots of fun, and the next day they invited us to Montezuma!! We walked into a jungle and found a nice waterhole where we could swing and jump. At the edge there was a waterfall where we could jump off and into the next waterhole 16 meters down!! :D Thank you so much Raquel and Berneth for taking us here!!

After some amazing days at the beach we had to return to San Jóse where a performance and a workshop was awaiting. On the ferry going to Santa Teresa I tried to do the plank, but the captain blew the horn. Going back I tried again, and a bit more discreet ;)

¡Vamos a la playa!

Surfing in Jacó!

The first few days were spent in Jacó. Here we met up with Jorge and Maja, who Mette and I will work for. In Jacó we had some lazy time in the sun and we also went surfing. Unfortunatly we didn't take any pictures while surfing, but we will definitly go surfing again, and then we'll try to take some pictures.

We had to get the Danish gymnastics team Bernsholdet back to the airport, and Jorge and Maja had to get ready for their vacation so we headed back to San José.

On our way we stopped to see some crocodiles ;)

We also ran into some bad rain which reminded us that it is rain season in Costa Rica!