Jenny's Cabinas Cahuita

... d on a bike. A tree has fallen across the road and a lorry driver is organising a chain to dag it out of the way.<br>They move it a bit and there is a gap so we're through and off. We cross river bridges, the size of some of the boulders in the river bed is amazing, there must have been some huge flows at some time.<br>As we come down again the forest gives way to clearings, some cattle farms ...

So I boarded the 9am bus to Aviarios del Caribe to see some sloths!<br>www.slothrescue.org.<br><br> The bus ride was pleasant, and I enjoyed the experience of traveling like the locals do....simply stand on the side of the road and the driver will stop and pick you up. You can also get off in the middle of nowhere if you so choose.<br><br>I arrived at the rescue center and walked down a long drive to an expansive compound that houses ...

... say), clouds rolled in with another nice breeze. We walked by Banana Azul (www.bananaazul.com), the "hip" place to stay in Puerto Viejo but not in my mind. The walk back was pretty, a path leads the way through what looked like a rain forest, it is awesome. I didn't wear any shoes and didn't care, it was simply the atmosphere that was truly amazing. It was very quiet, yet loud, humid yet enjoyable. I took it all in as the it was slowly ...

... to wonder what the hell I was doing on a deserted beach in the Costa Rican jungle, with electricity for only 3 hours a day, checking nests that probably wouldn't hatch for a few more days. When I went around checking at 3:15, I saw a turtle-head-shaped piece of sand in one of the leatherback nests, and suddenly it moved its flippers and came a bit further out of the sand! It was the only leatherback nest we had in the hatchery, so I woke everyone up, we weighed and measured ...

... south of town and inside the preserve. The place is very rustic, with its few buildings barely visible from just feet away because the forest is so lush. some of the walls are more like suggestions of walls, instead consisting of drapes and bamboo curtains. In essence, the rooms (and shower) are open to the jungle. for example, I had a hummingbird in my room one morning and geckos to numerous to count ...

... to sleep on us, we quickly shamed her into going by pointing out that I was eleven years older than her and woke up 2 hours before she did that morning. We headed down to Puerto Viejo for dinner and the hope of listening to live music. Puerto Viejo was packed and a ton of people were around. We found a place for dinner and then set off in search of a music place known as "Jhonny's Place"--and no, that's not a typo. After a couple of false ...

... The place was aptly named "Backpacker's Dream". It was a hoot, an experience and awesome all at once. We also visited a national park in Cahuita and were quickly surrounded by howler monkeys, white-faced monkeys and we even saw a sloth! And, yes, howler monkeys make sounds similar to the audio track from Jurassic Park - quite freaky! Now we're in San Jose, trying to figure out where to go next...we'll see!