Star Mountain Jungle Lodge Mal Pais

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

Small village on the main road but Tucan Hotel set back. Not cheap and only 2 showers/toilets shared between up to 4 people in treehouse, 4 in hammocks, multiple others camping plus 12 people in dorms when fully occupied. Female shower/toilet always full of men as bigger - thankfully came when quiet.

Cocked up the directions to the falls, Cascadas Verde & didn't turn left before hardware store. Ended up crossing the river ...

After dropping Bev off at the airport we headed straight out of town. Of course this took us a good hour due to traffic and the inability to get proper directions! The map I we had purchased at a hotel the day when we came into the country was supposedly up-to-date, but so far I had counted around 10 mistakes. The San Jose portion was no different. By the time we got out of the city it was around 3 PM so we only had a few hours of daylight left and we still had to go ...

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Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado
Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant

... what a wonderful place this was and how nice the cottage was.

Parker went down to the beach with grandma, and Shaeleigh, Malesa, Necia and I all went to the pool. The pool isn’t very big, but considering there are only 4 units in the entire place, the pool was huge. We saw all kinds of animals from howler monkeys to iguanas to butterflies to hummingbirds. After the swim, Oscar took Necia and me into town to buy some groceries. There were 3 ...

... looking so young - `mucho sexo` he tells us. So hilarious and sooooooo proud. Then his teeth fell out mid-laugh and his face caved in. So random! San Jose was just going nuts with Christmas shoppers and festivals, really nice and a good reminder to us that it *actually* was getting close to Christmas despite our lack of knowledge of the date, lack of snow, music, shopping...We left the next morning to get to Mal Pais to meet up with Ian and ...

... 8 the day and set off to explore the coastline along a gorgeous, unpaved beach road where the forest meets the sea for many miles. Our bikes were beach cruisers with baskets and no gears, we should have got the montain bikes because the road was difficult, covered in rocks and hilly at times. We even did some river crossings on them and now are nursing sore *****. My monkeys rode in the basket on the front. Malpais is what Byron Bay would have been ...

... jam. nevem men se se zmeraj ni zdelo da bi do tega zares lahko prislo, sploh ker je Costa Rica tako dalec od Peruja. Ampak dobr ce bi pa tsunami res prisel pa je bolje biti vsaj malo pripravljen. Punce so ze zdavnaj tekle v hrib, midve z Leane sva pobrale svojo elektronko, seveda brez mp3 in fotica ne grem nikamor, in dokumente ter se odpravile se z nekaj ljudmi v neko restavracijo na hrib ...

... great. It has a trail out the back gate directly to the beach, which is miles long and never crowded. The owner is also very laid back. In the kitchen there is a cooler with cola, water, beer, etc..and there is just a sheet of paper above where you write your name and what you take, and you pay when you want. the type of people who are staying there that he doesn't have to worry with anyone taking advantage of it. We tried to pay him for ...

Hey everybody! I´m on my second day off and I´m back at the beach! I am Sooo lucky! My last time here I went surfing! It was so much fun! It was my first time, and so it was frustrating at first, but now I got the hang of it so I´m going out to catch some waves. Surf´s up dudes!! Besides that I´ve been working at the farm and everything has been going very well. We´re building a fish pond. I also planted some trees and made a fence. It ...