It seems to have been a day of us versus the volcano today.  Not as in eruption but in trying to see it. Stu and i went for our first early morning walk this morning which was great we have only really been walking with the rest of the tour due to the early starts. […]

Hanging bridges day.  I have actually been looking forward to today on the basis that i thought all of the bridges were fixed (not suspension) structures.  Unfortunately at La Fortuna they aren’t, they are all suspension bridges. After a lovely walk through the rainforest spotting a bird (who’s type i can’t remember) and the bottom […]

It’s a road trip day today – or river and road trip or combo whichever suits best lol.  Our boat out of the canals was leaving at 8:30 with breakfast at 7 so the alarm was set for 6.  Unfortunately mother nature had other ideas with howler monkeys crying out at 5:30!  This can be […]

Last night we went on a night boat ride along the canals and while we didn’t spot any sloths or jaguars we saw plenty of birds (the smallest and largest kingfisher in Costa Rica) including a rare heron as well as micro-bats and cayman.  Pictures are hard at night so i apologise for the bullfrog […]

We have left San Jose today for our 14 day G Adventures/National Geographic odyssey.  We were all up, checked out and on the bus by 6:30 this morning.  We have been picked up by a bus from Turtle Lodge in Tortoguero. W stopped for a traditional Costa Rican breakfast of rice and beans about halfway […]

It’s a killing time kind of day today to wait for our tour meet and greet at 6pm where we meet our guide and the other members of our tour. After yet another hot shower – yay for hot water we walked into the city to get sim cards.  I have put one in my […]

We are transiting to San Jose today.  As we are going west we gain an hour.  We were up early this morning to get to Santa Marta airport for our flight to Bogota the on to San Jose.  We shared our bus with Claire, Becky and Roseanna.  We had a pretty uneventful couple of flights […]

The final day and the final walk out.  We had to be up at 5am today to get started by 6.  Our walk to Machete is 14km and we had to try and get there by around 12 to have lunch before the jeeps back at 1pm.  The first hour of the walk is straight up […]

I am merging day 3 and 4 as our program changed a little as day 3 went on.  I won’t give anything away until later in the post. We woke up at 4 today – there was a group who were doing the 4 day version of the hike who were hiking out today and […]

We are off to Wiwa Camp today.  The hike today was about 8km and we had 4.5 hours to make the distance.  There was a fair amount of uphill today some of which was as steep as yesterday if not more.  We had two breaks on the way to Wiwa camp again with watermelon to […]