Cahuita National Park

The next morning we took a shuttle from Boquete to Almirante, a bus to Changuinola and from there another to Guabito. The amount of banana's I have seen crossing this border is unreal as there are just farms and farms of bananas in this area.

Crossing the border took ages as we had to wait for our exit stamp in what was not a very long …

After our late night turtle party last night, we slept in a bit today. We had the freedom to make our own schedule - we had nowhere to be at any real time. It was great to relax a bit - we've been going 1000 miles an hour since we landed. By the time I got up, I'd missed breakfast... but mom to the rescue, she brought some breakfast to the room for …

What a surprise, no one has called me about my camera. But to be honest, in this case, I actually think that it might just be lost in the jungle rather than taken by someone. I like to think that the troupe of monkeys have it to be honest. So today I went and filed a police report. After my previous experiences with trying to report stolen items i. …

Once we had our fill of hammocks and youngsters at Rocking J's, it was time to head north and get back to nature. We arrived in Cahuita in the early afternoon and checked in to The Secret Garden. From there, it was a quick walk to the entrance of Cahuita National Park, a park that boasts birds, lizards, snakes, sloths, monkey encounters and Costa …

Our arrival from the rafting adventure took us to the Caribbean coast where cultures combine with a heavy fusion of Central American and Caribbean. We chose Cahuita as an alternative to the "party town" down the road. However, even we found it dead. A lot of places were closed. The National Park was open and after weighing up the donation amount to …

Puerto Viejo is a great little place with a definite Caribbean flavour lots of 'Bob Marley's about. We stayed in Rocking J's hostel which is right on the beach and has a great character about it- the first couple of nights we had a 'cell' like room (metally with bars on the window and all graffittied but in an attractive way) with a double bunk bed …

... North, and a white sand beach and National Park to the South. Today is Andrew´s birthday. We went for a hike through the National Park. The trail parallels the coast, but is set back slightly in the jungle. We saw scads of land crabs in their ...

... of one whole day of torrential rain we enjoyed cooler weather than we expected. We spent one day exploring a part of the national park, which was so beautiful. We walked alongside the sandy beaches, palm trees, hundreds of lizards running in front of ...

Cahuita was smaller and less fun than Puerto Viejo, but the National Park was a highlight. Since the park was so accessible and crowded we kept expectations low on seeing wildlife, but as soon as we saw the monkey droppings...we knew ...

... the early afternoon and checked in to The Secret Garden. From there, it was a quick walk to the entrance of Cahuita National Park, a park that boasts birds, lizards, snakes, sloths, monkey encounters and Costa Rica's best snorkelling. Unfortunately, as a ...

Cahuita National Park - We took the short trip over into Costa Rica and continued up the Caribbean Coast to Cahuita National Park, where we would spend Christmas.  We stayed for a few days in the small town of Cahuita, and spent most of the time on ...

... the first 2 days of my trip in Cahuita, a laid-back town at the Carribean Coast with Jamaican roots. A small national park (Cahuita National Park)is located very close to the town. Here you can see black howler monkeys, White-faced Capuchin monkeys, the ...

... . The southern beaches, the forest behind them, and the coral reef offshore (one of just a handful in Costa Rica) are all part of Cahuita National Park. And the area is full of wild life..we can´t even count the number of different types of birds ...

... a walk through the national park looking for the animals that allegedly live in it.  As with every other national park in Costa Rica I didn't see a single animal.  They must have all headed south or started hibernating early.  I have come ...

After a few days in Puerto Viejo we went north to Cahuita. We only spent one full day here in the national park. Very pretty...we saw a bunch of sloths and howler monkeys. that's about it for Cahuita, nothing too exciting. OH we also saw a bootlegged ...

... and I expected better things the following night - oh how wrong that turned out to be! Anyway the next day I went to Cahuita National Park which was literally right next to the hostel and made the recommended $1 donation to go in. The park extends inland ...