Day 30 – Manuel Antonio – Sea Kyaking

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 […]

Day 29 – Manuel Antonio

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 […]

Let’s Call it Day 28 – Monteverde to Manuel Antonio

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 […]

Day 26 – Monteverde (although I think it’s day 27)

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 […]

Day 26 – Monteverde

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) […]

Day 25 – La Fortuna to Monteverde

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 […]

Day 24 – La Fortuna Free Day

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. […]

Day 23 – La Fortuna

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 […]

Day 22 – Tortoguero to La Fortuna

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 […]

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 […]