Cabinas Smith Cahuita

... rapids was known by the local indigenous as ‘The Cemetery,’ I think you can guess why! We hit the rapids fast and I noticed ahead of us the river dipped deep, almost like a small waterfall, and we were heading straight for it.  We were paddling hard and as soon as we hit that fall the raft shifted on its side, everything moved quickly. I felt my body hit the bottom of the riverbed and spin out of control, within seconds I was up and out. I could see ...

... seit 1991 um verletzte oder verwaiste Faultiere. Damals wurde das erste verlassene Baby-Faultier bei den Besitzern der Station abgegeben, die hier eigentlich gerade ein Vogelreservat einrichten wollten. Sie nannten das Tier Buttercup und zogen es gross. Bald wurde das naechste gebracht und das dritte und so langsam bekamen sie den Ruf, DIE Rettungsstation fuer Faultiere zu sein. Heute kommen jeden Monat viele neue Tiere dazu. Die Babies koennen leider nicht ausgewildert ...

... rice and beans, eggs, potatoes and fresh juice ... delicious. As we ate at this beach side soda, we noticed right in front of us, a small boats with the name "Denver" painted on it. There was another one named "Eduardo" however, there were not any with the name "Roberto"... We stopped to shop for postcards at the ATEC office where the money goes back to the locals, a good cause so I bought all my postcards. We walked through the ...

... into a harness, hook yourself to a steel cable and (if you're lindsey) swoop gracefully through the trees and land on a platform in the canopy or (if you're simon) rocket through the canopy like an unguided missile and make a disgraceful landing by crashing into a tree at 30kph. three times. and once into un unwary guide. the pictures were a bit wobbly. we decided it was time to head back to the carribean so we spent a few days in cahuita camping in the ...

... de pouvoir faire un stop pour la première partie du trajet. La plupart de gens qui vient ici, c´est pour faire du palmes, masques y tuba car il y a beaucoup de recifes de coral. C´était dommage que les vagues soient trop gros et les courants trop forts pour nager jusqu´à la creste des recifes. Sur la plage, on a recolté quelques noix de coco pour grignoter et pour avoir un peu de force. Gràce à David, on a pu ouvrir les cocos avec son machete.

... overrun with tourism yet (compared to other places we have been) but will be surely ruined by it in the next few years. It's an American retirement village as well as it appears Florida is becoming a little too expensive for the masses. There are plenty of ex pats around as well working here and there. We chose to stay at a hotel run by a lovely local lady in order to keep the $$ in the locals hand ...

Easy journey to Puerto Viejo and had met up with Chris from New York who was also in the hostel in san jose so we went searching for a place to stay in the town and that proved pretty easy. Thank god the Carribean sea is much warmer than the pacific and swimming was a pleasure here. Was funny puerto Viejo just has little dirt roads going though it and a ...