Casa Roland Marina Resort Hotel Golfito

... grapefruit cordial curtosy of the Lodge next door. We still had one final river crossing to make but had enough time not to panic too much and reached it about half an hour later. We had to get the 3pm truck back to Puerto Jimenez from Carate and arrived at the Carate ´pick up point with about an hour and a half to spare. I used this opportunity to nurse my mossie bites, dry out my blisters and ease my paining legs whilst enjoying a lovely chicken and rice dish. <br><br ...

... huge. i caught some more fish and ate them too. i found this fruit called miricle fruit and it makes everything taste sweeter. so you could just eat lemons and it tastes like lemon aide. it was awesome!!!! we stayed there for two weeks and now i am back in puerto jimenez until monday. then we leave for monteverde to try and find the hippie festival. i have many more stories about those two week, but i dont have to time to write them all now. enjoy life nate

... it's a fantastic place. Don't let a poor fist impression tarnish your stay, relax, grow to love the simple pleasures and basic way of living. Employ the 2 chair method as soon as you can and above all enjoy the surroundings. Yours, direct from tent camp..... Looking forward to El Rodeo Steak house on Wednesday night, hot shower, clean clothes and......T-BONE steak followed by a nice bowl of Ice cream. Hummmmmmm.

... for the nature a stroll for this land is really fantastic, and if on top of that you add that you are the one walking on the middle of the nature without a guide (obviously you got the option to pay 50$ for one if you want to, but it was not the case) encountering the animals you can not ask for much more. But if the park is superb and emotional, the way to arrive to it has his good part of adventure as well. First you have to get to a town called Sierpe, and then arrange a ...

Alright so I headed out of San Jose with Olamn, the construction foreman, who picked me up at the school in San Jose. He didn´t speak a word of English and for all I know he could be taking me into the jungle and feeding me to the jaguars. As we headed out of San Jose up the mountains we tried to communicate by playing charades, waving our hands alot and making retarded ...

... to. As I stood on the narrow wood slats, taking a survey of the surroundings, I noticed a large object headed right for my boat on the screaming 3 knot ebb current. Yes, it was a refrigerator. And, not being able to do anything about it, I just stood there and watched. Thankfully, it raced past the ...

... fairly well, one of my goals while being here!! i can't quite throw it around my back yet, but i'm getting there. anyways, on our third day we went into the national park with some boys that we had actually met in our hostel in santa theresa and they had shown up in MA. they are hilarious aussies, and we have had some good times!! anyways, the park was amazing. it wasn't too strenuous and we saw some amazing things. we hiked up to the ...

... up to that point. From Cuerici we descended to Corcovado national park on the osa peninsula. We walked 14 miles in with some of our stuff on our backs. Corcovado is pacific wet lowland forest and it is humid and hot. It is so humid that standing still is usually worse than moving because you need the moving air to get any sort of evaporative cooling. If la selva is the image of a well developed field station, Sirena station at corcovado is the ...

... the Doldrums and we definitely don't want to motor all the way to Panama, so a little breeze would be very welcome. There are a few storms closer to the Equator 200 to 300 miles away and it makes for an impressive show during our night sail. We drop the anchor at Isla del Cano around 10:00 am and launch the tender to explore the island. This island is minuscule and covered in thick unspoiled rain forest. We feel like Robinson Crusoe - and not having shaved for 2 weeks ...

... wouldn't be doing this walk again. Just as well I had enough groceries to last me till I left. I finally got back and crashed on the hammock - and thought I would never get up again. The rest of the afternoon was spent on that hammock watching the clouds roll in. Now the cabins had an outdoor kitchen (covered with bamboo constructed roof) on the shore line with the water lapping at my heels). Quite ...