Time to move on today so we hired a car and headed for the hills. Along the way we stopped at the seaside town of Jaco before reaching the bridge over the Tarcoles river, a place we had read that we should stop at. This is one of the advantages of renting a car, if we'd been on the bus we would have have missed the amazing sight of more than thirty crocodile under the bridge basking in the sun (and probably many more under the water). One of the locals there told us that this was a slow day - there can be over a hundred at times, and this is said to be one of the most heavily populated crocodile areas in the world.We continued on into the mountains, eventually leaving the bitumen for a pretty rough dirt road. After enduring the rough ride we finally reached the small town of Santa Elena, where we checked in to our "rustic" country cottage home for the next three nights.
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