Stu and I woke up early this morning – I don’t know what woke me but it was before the howlers started (about 10 minutes before).  The howlers are becoming the same as the roosters in Colombia – starting way before dawn lol.  We were up so early we decided to do a walk into […]

We picked up our car from Thrifty today and it is a Toyota Landcruiser Prado (Peter is horrified they call it a landcruiser as at home its just a Prado and nowhere near as big as a landcruiser). We managed to fit 6 adults and 4 days of clothes each (just) in and headed to […]

Scarlet ones to be exact.  This is the one species of the two in Costa Rica we haven’t seen yet.  We’ve seen green flying above but these scarlet ones were sitting in a tree next to the highway just outside Jaco about an hour north of Manuel Antonio.   Edited with BlogPad Pro

Another (and final for this tour) transit day today.  We are leaving the Pacific Coast and Manuel Antonio and heading back to San Jose.  We have left behind 6 new friends who are seeing out the end of their holiday in Manuel Antonio. As there was no rush today (we weren’t leaving until 1pm), Stu […]

Carte blanche today and we picked to go sea kayaking rather than a catamaran trip we had originally decided to do.  11 of us (Sandy did the catamaran, Michelle went back to the national park for a swim, and English Steve and Yvonne and John did their own thing) were picked up at 8 and taken […]

Where has 14 days gone.  This is about day 11 of our G tour by my reckoning tomorrow is our last full day at Manual Antonio before we head back to San Jose on Friday. I’ve so lost track of days so whether we are day 28 or 29 who knows.  Most important thing is […]

We are leaving the mountains for the Pacific coast today.  It is a long 6 hour drive however it will be nice to have warm days and evenings especially when yesterday evening suddenly turned very, very cold. We left Monteverde about 8 and arrived at Manuel Antonio just after 1:30.  On the way down the […]

We visited the Monteverde Institute today and a project to rebuild the plant corridor between Monteverde and the Pacific. The first stop was to spend about 90 minutes helping with the seedlings.  Our group did the weeding first and then we rotated to bagging soil ready for seeds to be planted.  This plot of land […]

We did a hike through the St Elena Cloud Forest today.  Even before we left the hotel we spotted a Lesson’s Motmot.   Once we’d got to the Cloud Forest NP we walked through an orchid garden then spotted our first bird – a relative of the Quetzal (the bird i really want to see) […]

Its a big transit day today not so much in time as vehicles.  We had to be ready by 8:30 to catch a bus to Lago Arenial this morning so that we could put all our luggage on a boat and cross to the other side – apparently this saves about 4.5 uncomfortable hours of […]