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Birding in Trinidad
... bumpy road in the dark up to the Asa Wright Centre in the Northern Range mountains. It was a refuge from the heat of the valley, from traffic, from wordly worries. It was also a haven for hummingbirds, toucans and socially awkward but otherwise lovely birdwatchers from all over the world. One such creature (an American called Chris) asked Pedro "how long have you been a birder?". The wrong ...
Our Day in Trinidad
The sun rose on Trinidad and brought a lovely overcast day. Nice and humid like Thailand, but still not deliriously hot so that you sweat your clothes out in 10 minutes. Wendy brought us some eggs on toast to start the day with some local fruit, Adam was not a fan, but I loved it all. The Taxi driver met us outside for a 40-minute ride to Maracas Beach. Trinidad’s famous beach on the north side of the island. The drive ...
Day 4 - Started off well...
We woke up early and had a cooked breakfast at the Inn, fried eggs and some sort of chopped up salami. It was a warm and humid morning, but very overcast. We wanted to go to the beach, which it turned out was a 45 minute, $100 return taxi ride away!
The taxi ride it turned out, was more like a guided tour. Driving up through the rainforest like mountains we finally got to see what Trinidad had to offer. It was ...
Day 3 - Did we make it to Trinidad this time?
Breakfast at the hotel this morning consisted of sugary cereal with a side of sugar, sugary toast with a sugary spreads, sugar, sugar, sugar! Needless to say, I ate a yogurt and a handful of grapes! Missing vegemite already!!
We made the flight to Trinidad this time, and 8 hours later (we had to go ...
We made it!
We made sure we had plenty of time for our flight to Trinidad. Mike was kind enough to let us store our bags at the hotel so we didn’t have to pay $100 excess baggage. He was a true legend! We made it to Trinidad after another 7 hours on a plane and met Adam late at night at our accommodation. Trinidad reminded ...