I'm swinging in the rain..
Trip Start
Jun 06, 2009
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Trip End
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Cahuita, Province of Limon, Costa Rica
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Cahuita is a one road village south of Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast. A town past built from afro-caribbean settlers arriving from Jamaica, the people hold strong to their roots through Jah, Rastafarianism and of course the obligatory herb of choice!
I was hoping for another Montezuma, a chilled out happy town that I could feel safe in even when walking alone after sun down. Cahuita had the same easy laid back attitude but with an air of menace lying just below the surface. Too much rum & Imperial written into the faces of men taking their post dinner positions under the bus stop. The local dealer like a drowsy wasp in the height of the British summer (ahh the irony, summer and Britain in the same analogy!), ready to plant his sting on a low life backpacker.
However the above could well be blamed on the backpacking traveller hoping to obtain cheap drugs and Cahuita's reputation as a "free love" town, visiting females determined to make a bee line for the local males. Unfortunately as with most things in this World it's a case of supply and demand!
With all the above the location of the town is beautiful, the National Park lying to the South. Miles of warm Caribbean waters lapping the shores of coral sands, backed by jungle, home to amongst others the White Faced Capuchin monkey, Howler monkey and Sloth. To the North the ethereal beauty of the black volcanic sand beach, a rugged and wild piece of nature, laced with Palms and driftwood.
I had planned to stay 2 nights here having caught up with Yuka, a Japanese girl previously met at La Tortuga Feliz, instead with the rain falling and a cosy hammock swinging under the eaves of my wooden cabin I stayed 4 awaiting the arrival of another friend Alessandra.
