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We left in the morning for the border Pañas blancas. A chicken bus took us all the way to La vergin where there was the other bus from Rivas waiting for people from SJdS. A short jouney got us to the very well pañas blancas. Now I´ve been to other fontera towns before but this one was different. It was very busy, muddy, chaotic. There were guys trying to scam us all the time no signs to where to go. We had to pay to just get into the area to go to the Nicaraguan control. Which we weren´t told and were told we couldn´t use Cordobas any more so we changed all our money to Colones. Then after trying to dodge some more scammers, one of which followed us to the control and wouldn´´t leave, we were told we needed to pay in Cordobas. I managed to pay in $ which always seem to come in handy for times like these. The scammer guy wanted a tip for telling us something we already new. I was scared something was going to go missing with so many of these characters about my passport had already fallen into the mud, I must have looked a easy target.
We get to the Costa Rican side things are a little more organised. It is now getting too late in the day to make it all the way to Tamarindo, so we have lunch opposite passport control and get the bus to Liberia.