Hotel del Mar Quepos

After dropping Bev off at the airport we headed straight out of town. Of course this took us a good hour due to traffic and the inability to get proper directions! The map I we had purchased at a hotel the day when we came into the country was supposedly up-to-date, but so far I had counted around 10 mistakes. The San Jose portion was no different. By the time we got out of the city it was around 3 PM so we only had a few hours of daylight left and we still had to go ...

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Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado
Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant

... because I have never seen a pineapple still growing ha. There are thses Howler Monkeys that you can randomlly hear, OOOO OOOOoooo OOOoooo, that are really kidna creepy sounding. almost liek teh sound is a scary movie. crazy moths and butterfly just randomly fly by. Then on top of it all theres the sounds of so many different birds and insects. But just chilling in a hammock for hours each day and watchign passiont fruit fall off the ...

... perfect. Everyone that works here feels the owner should sell it cause he is the only constant that is not positive and light. This, is why I wouldn't want to work and live here. For the other things....I am happy to be here. The owner is German (there are a lot of Germans in CR) and the guests and volunteers are American, Canadian, Polish, Japanese, British, Turkish, Italians and of course, locals. I love being around so many different ...

... hunting crocodiles (ok, so, there are crocs in CR...good to know) but it started raining so he stopped in to talk to Elena (the owner of the place, who is currently in the US) Anyhow, put all this together and we figured he was either fleeing from something in the US or a part of the witness protection program. He also promised to come back by with some moonshine. Yep, it is Friday the 13th.

we arrived in manuel antonio and headed straight to the beach, if u'd seen our accommodation u wouldnt have wanted to hang around either. ok beach, nothing special, after a while we figured we should check out the national park as thats what the areas famous for, but it was closed for the day so we had to go shopping and drink some ...

... we went to Manuel Antonio National Park. We did not take a guide this time, we just tagged along behind some other groups. As soon as we entered we saw a sloth moving. We heard the guide saying that the sloth was going to poo, and that this only happens once a week. Well, that´s handy. We spotted a monkey ourselves, so we thought we were the real deal. Sean really got into it, making animal sounds and all. We had a long walk in the forest. We even ...

Da Puntarenas partiamo con 10 anni di vita in meno...Li abbiamo donati a delle serafiche iguane, cosí carine, ma cosí carine che non appena una si é fiondata fuori dalla fessura raso terra della cancellata, abbiam cacciato un urlo che ha scatenato la risata generale tra dei vecchietti al chioscetto che giá se la ridevano a guardarci fare cucci cucci alle bestioline. Ora novelle trentasettenni abbracciamo l ...

I made it out of San Jose no problems. I took the local bus from the coca cola station (more of a corner street in the middle of a market) and headed to Quepos which was about a four hour bus ride. It wasn´t bad at all it was in a comfortable coach bus except that there is no Air con and the roads are pretty windy and nauseating. Its a small touristy town its 7km from one of Costa Rica ...

... At 7:30 our tour started and for the next three hours we took about 5 courses in 1 in Ecology and Biology, our guide was fantastic. Maybe the most amazing part was that we were fortunate enough to see the Quetzal bird, not once, but twice in our adventure. This is the bird that we looked for in Panama and the same bird that many bird watchers come to this part of the world to see, but often go home without so much as a look. We had planned on going to the ...