From top left: Typical town on our journey from Rio Micos to Rio Alseseca; how many times do you see this, cops on trikes and vatos on choppers; typical roadside lunch stop complete with dogs kicking around; when was the last time livestock roamed the street outside your lunch stop restaraunt; how many seat belt tickets do you suppose an American popo could write these guys, seems to me like a good use of resources to keep packing 'em in (I think they were working in the sugar cane fields); these roadside temples seemed fairly common but this one was particularly large and well kempt.
Here's the cafeteria at AdventuRec. We could eat here, buffet style, for 80 pesos per meal, not bad, but we often chose to either cook or eat in town to save money or get more local flavor. Check out the palm roof, pretty legit. Everything down there was open air. We had windows and/or screens, but I didn't see a single room that was completely closed to the outdoors. We slept in a dorm style room, bunks, two to a room, pretty spacious really. I think it cost us 100 pesos per person per night. This seemed great since it rained the first night we arrived and didn't get nice again 'til 4 days later. We were stoked to have a roof over our heads, a safe place to park the car (we didn't even take the keys out of the ignition at night), somewhat reliable showers (everyone seemed to get to know a particular shower then stuck with that one for the duration), and a reliable staff who we came to know and rely upon. The owners are from Spain but live full time on the compound. They had a gate that was locked each night at dark and a gate keeper who had to let you in if you came in after dark. I guess this kept things safer. I would recommend this place to anyone staying near Tlapacoyan. It's clean and the staff is super nice. I did happen to see a huge hairy spider, a huge non-hairy spider, and a few roaches, definitely not in the PNW anymore.
This is a cabana at AdventuRec. It's nicer than the hostel dorm rooms and twice the price, but still cheap compared to what this awesome little place would cost in a resort town! These were private with showers, decks, the works!
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is hole was evocative of the Alseseca. Dan's line (yellow boat) was perfect, Corey's line (green boat) while only being 12" - 18" to the left, put him in a recirculating hole that he was not going to get out of, hence the last picture of the green boat getting hammered and nearly sunk. Needless to say the boat needed a rope, consequently so did Corey, to get away from the lower hole that was slowly sucking him in. I was taking pictures with the rope nearby as I watched him slowly get pulled backward. I swapped camera for rope and yanked him out. Pretty funny really. The picture lower right is just another fun waterfall/slide, very common on the Alseseca. It's a great run comprised of basalt geology and dirty water. As you can see in the lower left picture with the bottles in the eddy. This eddy was just to the side of where I pulled Corey out of the water. Definitely not water you want going in your throat, nose, or ears. It's really too bad the locals don't show the environment more respect as the area in which they live is simply beautiful. The town image below was a small village that was above the run we did, called the Roadside run since it's along the road the whole way, although you almost never notice the road because the whitewater keeps your attention peaked around every corner. The village was really kind of quaint and turned out to be the gateway to the much bigger more serious section of the Alseseca, The Big Banana.
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