Day 21 – Tortuguero Day 2

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 […]

Day 20 – Tour Day 2 San Jose – Tortoguero

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 […]

Day 19 – San Jose

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 […]

Day 18 – Transit Day to San Jose

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 […]

Day 17 – Day 5 of the Lost City Hike

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 […]

Day 15 and 16 – Lost City Hike Day 3&4

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 […]

Day 14 – Lost City Hike Day 2

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 […]

Day 13 to 17 Lost City Hike

Day 1 of our 5 day hike to the lost city. We had breakfast this morning then finalised our packing for the 5 day hike. Even with the mule we are only taking one dry change of clothes plus one spare shirt. Between Stu and i we have 2 heavy backpacks (with the camelback bladders […]

Day 13 – 17 Hiking the Lost City

We had our meet and greet last night and are starting our hike in a few hours. Final pack then we will be off the grid until late Friday afternoon Colombia time. See you all on the other side. Edited with BlogPad Pro

Day 12 – Back-pedalling in Santa Marta

We have to meet with our Chief Experience Officer (CEO) and it is the first official day of our 7 day tour – the same as next Saturday is day 7 of the tour even though we are flying to San Jose Costa Rica on the Saturday. I am really glad we only spent one […]