Cabinas Oro Verde Puerto Jimenez

... town had not be spoiled by tourism. I guess the road is preserving them for the time being.

Now that we had taken up surfing it was time to test out our skills. Upon arriving at the beach we were amazed with the sprawling jungle, set right up to the beach hugging the crystal blue Pacific Ocean. Next was the wave! One perfect wave that rolled along the beach, which seemed like almost forever. We stopped and found the perfect spot right on the beach, with most of the ...

... Jimenez in the Osa Peninsula.

Costa Rica is expensive when you are travelling on a backpackers budget. Because of this Al and I decided to only spend a week in CR and do the Osa Peninsula, thus going "off the beaten track" (well according to the Lonely Planet that is!). The Osa Peninsula has been described by National Geographic as "the most bio diverse place on earth". The amount of wildlife and plant life here is apparently amazing and its well worth going. We decided that ...

... stuff on a low pebbly island in the middle of the river, diving in, then happening to look back at our stuff, this island had virtually disappeared, and Monica's stuff, including her camera, was now partly submerged! Unfortunately it now won't turn on, and it was a relatively new camera. It is crazy how fast the tide comes in there, you can literally watch the water level rise! At this stage I should mention the usefulness of our guide ...

Penisola di Osa, golfo Dulce. Il nostro intento di uniformare il colorito panna e fragola che da Puntarenas ci da l'aspetto delle figurine cartonate con le spallucce bianche e i tratteggi delle maniche e dei calzini su avambracci, caviglie e decollté, è miseramente fallito poiché gli acquazzoni non demordono. Lo sfizio del bagno nell'oceano ce lo siamo tolte per metá dato che nel Golfo Dulce cammina cammina ma l'acqua non avanza ...

... point for the wild, remote, diverse and famed Corcovado National Park. Although the majority of Costa Rican tourist destinations are developed for the luxurious tourist in mind, because of its sheer isolation from everything else, unless you pay a considerable amount of money for a guide to take you into the park by foot, plane or by boat, Corcovado is one of the few places in CR that is wild and rugged enough to keep out the majority of tourists. An uncommon ode to ...

... the Osa Peninsula, which National Geographic called the most biologically intense place on Earth.  Up to this point in the trip, I hadn't seen wildlife even on my hikes and was looking forward to finally seeing some tropical animals.  During my stay there, I saw some scarlet macaws, which are parrot-like birds which are red, blue, and yellow.  I also saw chestnut-mandibled toucans, squirrel monkeys, white-face capuchin monkeys, caimans, and crocodiles.  During a sea ...

... kind of scary and definitely weird to see a shark in a freshwater river. As we floated on, we heard a noise on the bank and we saw a big tapir heading to the water. We watched him as we drifted by and took as many pictures as we could. We paddled upstream a little to see him more, and he got into the river, swam across, and got out on the other side. It was amazing to see such a rare creature. He had a really cute nose like a short elephant trunk. In the ...

... thing in the morning and jumped on tour bus to go white water rafting. that was awesome!! it was just the four of us in a boat with 2 guides, and it was mostly really chill with not much to do but look at the scenery but every 5 or 10 minutes we would have to paddle really hard and get down some fairly big rapids. it was soo much fun, but i think next time i want even bigger rapids. after our tour, we were driven to the carribean side of costa rica, to ...

... was wonderful, cool, pretty, and tons of birds. Our resource person there was an ornithologist so we netted birds and got to take them out too! Many of the birds that we caught were hummingbirds, and they are hard to get out of the nets. It was amazing to see them so close and to hold onto them. It doesn't seem like they should be able to live as small as they are. We didn't do any projects at Cuerici, rather we focused on writing up all of the ...

... is pretty much non-existent in the real world, and this one shook his white whiskers at us, boldly scratching and slapping his armpits, screaming insults, barking in our direction and flinging twigs at us. It was clear that he had a lot of issues, perhaps with a broken heart or a misunderstanding between best-buds, and he was simply taking it out on us. But whatever the cause of his lonesome distress, we decided to leave him in peace and move on.