We drove to our next hostel in Manuel Antonio, and it was beautiful. It was called Vista Serena, and it did have an amazing view of the ocean and the hills, it was just a gorgeous place. We checked into our rooms and had made it just in time to go on the 2pm monkey tour, where we went out on a boat in the estuaries in search of monkeys and other wildlife. Christina had been disappointed that we hadn't seen any monkeys yet up in the highlands, but wow, this trip definitely made up for that. We pulled up to this one tree and there were suddenly about 15 Capuchin monkeys all over the boat, and our guide had bananas that he would hold out to them and they would climb over your head and jump across the boat to get them. It was such a cool experience, we thought Christina was going to stay with them, but we managed to keep her on the boat and also got to see some basilisk lizards, an anteater, and a bunch of cool birds. It was a really cool trip, and our guide Conrad was hella funny, he was this chilled out stoner guy that definitely said whatever came to his mind at any specific moment. He was in the middle of a talk about how one of the mangroves was different from another, and then just looks up and goes, "Oh shit, that bird just took a shit!" He was originally from Riverside, but moved back to CR to take care of his grandparents, and just works at the hostel and gives tours now, seems like a pretty sweet life.
We got back to the hostel in time to see one of the most amazing sunsets Ive ever witnessed, it was just epic. Such awesome colors and the clouds were all different from the ones you see in California, and it went on for about 2 hours. It was just mesmerizing to stare at and was nice to just relax on the porch at the hostel with such a beautiful thing in front of you.
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