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Travel Blogs from Drake Bay
The many transfers to Drake Bay
We are pretty much used to getting up at 5am now! In the mountains, the sun rises and sets early, so we just got in the rhythm.
After our feat on Chirripo mountain, we were headed to Drake Bay, reportedly a beautiful, lush, isolated area located down south on Osa peninsula. Drake Bay is remote and requires several transfers if you are …
Ziplining across primary and secondary forests!
We had decided to sleep in today and do a canopy tour in the afternoon. Our neighbors started making loud noises around 5:30am... so much for sleeping in!
We had breakfast at a cafe/bakery next to Gringo Kurt's. They make you pretty much anything you want. I only had dollars on me at that time, but that wasn't a problem since almost all …
A jungle tour of Corcovado National Park
The jungle tour required that we report to the office by 6am. This was noo problem for us, having been getting up before 5:30am for the past week!
We met a young French couple and our tour guide named Breyner, who looked kind of like a pirate with his facial hair and hoop earrings. We got on a boat similar to the one from yesterday, and …
Der Ruf der Wale
... schön waren auch die Delphine, die wir gesehen haben und die direkt neben unserem Boot hergeschwommen sind. Wir hätten nur die Hand ins Wasser strecken müssen, um sie zu berühren. Genial.
Das Schnorcheln am Schluss der Tour bleibt hier lieber unerwähnt. Die Sicht war so schlecht, dass wir nach fünf Minuten wieder auf dem Boot waren. Mittlerweile brannte auch die Sonne auf uns nieder und wir waren echt froh, dass wir die Regenjacken ...
Quiet Week...
... it bit me and had to be killed.
Then I made friends with a Many Scaled Anole who sat watching me for ages. I sat quiet and still and eventually she jumped on my welly and then slowly walked up my welly and sat on my knee where she nervously started to munch on the dead horse fly. It was at least twice as big as her head. A male Anole watched from about half a meter away, obviously impressed with ...