Day 155 to 156 - While we were reading they were raiding!

Montezuma

Day 155

There's a lovely view of the beach from the house so we headed down to the village to grab some breakfast and check out the place. The town has a lovely laid back vibe to it which combined with the great house we're staying makes us regret slightly that we've already paid for our next booking, we could easily spend more time here.

We had a long swim in the ocean and spent the afternoon relaxing in beautiful, peaceful surroundings, watching the capuchin monkeys playing just near our balcony, stripping and eating mangoes hanging in the trees.

Day 156

Today we decided we to explore the surrounding area, as there are supposed to be some very nice beaches and beach towns not too far away. The roads are all in pretty bad condition, all dirt, lots of ruts and bumps, but maybe that helps to keep tourist numbers down.

We drove through Mel Pais and then stopped at Santa Teresa for a nice coffee and cake at a bakery with incredibly rude staff, before taking a walk along the beach. Based on our extensive survey of the area (all of about 30 minutes) we decided we preferred Montezuma, where even the ferals selling trinkets on the street have a little bit of charm and are quite friendly.

It wasn't me!

After some heavy relaxing back in the hammock on our veranda we could hear some monkey business nearby. We watched the monkeys scrambling around the veranda and the trees while we tried to work out what they were eating, it looked like peanuts. Then K spotted one monkey running along the wall with her peanut packet in his hands, the monkeys had snuck into the kitchen downstairs and taken the plastic container containing the packet from the kitchen bench. There also seemed to be a packet of noodles missing, confirmed when we found the empty packet lying on the ground, and not far away was the empty packet of chicken flavouring. We had thought it was strange that there were so many monkeys around .... now we know why, it was a coordinated raid!