Hotel Jaguar Cahuita

... boatman is stood by to charge a few dollars to ferry you the 10 metres across the river. Like most people we opted for the wading option, though it did ruin the Y fronts! The second river was much easier only knee deep. <br>All this time we had not seen that much wild life, lots of leaf cutter ants making trails across the path and the brightly coloured land crabs which dive into their burrows as you approach camera in hand. Various lizards but no ...

... auf den Arm zu nehmen, aber einen Finger reichen wir ihr dann doch, als sie so bittend die Hand nach uns ausstreckt. Wir sind erstaunt von der immensen Kraft in ihrer Hand, die sie wohl auch braucht, wenn sie gut klettern koennen will. Wir bekommen unsere Finger nur nach etwas Ueberredung wieder, was wir aber eigentlich auch gar nicht so dringend wollen. Ihre Hand zu halten ist ein umwerfendes Gefuehl. Faultiere sind uebrigens neben den Delfinen die einzigen Tiere, die ...

... a favorite tanning lotion we discovered in Hawaii. It was a nice time in the water and on the beach. After lunch, we sat and had an afternoon ice cold beer, with the company our dogs. The warm (hot) tropical climate felt fabulous. After being outside for any amount of time, walking indoors where the air conditioning is running, feels like the arctic for a brief moment but OH, it sure feels good. I learned to convert the money, you simply ...

Hola! So... where was I? I believe I was in Montezuma... Did I mention the waterfalls? Perhaps not. They are just out of town and are reached by walking up the river for about 10 mins to reach a large plunge pool at the base of a waterfall about 20m high. Many people go swimming in here and it was so nice and cool and good to avoid the heat of the day. I then climbed up a STEEP hill to reach another two sets of falls, also with plunge pools. The second set was about 11m high and ...

... English -- and my pigeon Spanish -- kindly found me my driver, a little man shorter than me, holding up a sign the size of a postcard. He spoke no English, but we communicated with a few English words, a few Spanish words an a lot of pointing. He had to wait for a few more people, so he directed me to a bench and I waited there, eating my first Costa Rican food, a cookie with the consistancy of shortbread with coconut in it. Yum! Fanta ...

... green turtles: when the turtles come up to nest, we collect the eggs and either move the nest, camouflage it, or take the eggs back to a protected hatchery for safekeeping. Anyways, I got settled in: mosquito net set up, unpacked a little bit, and then went to eat with the other volunteers. There's almost 20 of us here: I think 6 from Spain, 2 from France, one American, one other Canadian, an Israeli, and a bunch of Brits. They didn't put me to work the first night, so I ...

... The green, yellow and gold of Jamaica/reggae/ganja is everywhere. The music is calypso and reggae. The food is Caribbean influenced, with jerk chicken, lots of coconut being used in dishes, and creole. The language has a Jamaican lilt and a Spanish cum English patois is spoken. However, this is not quite the Caribbean. The beaches are brown (or black) sand, the water is rougher (hence its surf popularity) and ...

... s Ghost--a phenomenal book on the history of the Congo. I highly recommend it to everyone. To our delight, the rain cleared up by about 8:30 and we had blue skies by noon. We spent a wonderful day shopping in Puerto Viejo, and then we had a great afternoon at a beach a few kilometers south of Puerto Viejo called Punta Uva. Punta Uva was beautiful--the water was extremely clear, and we could see the ocean floor. It also had less wave action ...

... most people are not crazy enough to camp near the summit - they make a 12 hour up-and-down quickie of it. Naw, we're hard core and, that's right...we camped in the bitter cold near the top and hiked to the summit the next morning for an awesome view of the sunrise as wisped up and over the peak. The hike down was miserable, knee-crunching, 9 mile trek, from which I am still sore - three days later. But I ...