Costa Rica is famous for its rain forests and canopy tours. So naturally we decided to do neither! Well that's not strictly true. As we explained we were in a rush to get to San Jose for the Georgia match, which didn't happen in the end. We then either had a choice of going back into the jungle or having one last look at the Caribbean with our b...

oh my gosh, it is soooooo freakin hot in puerto viejo right now. I woke up to bright sun and walking down the street as if someone had a magnifying glass over my arm with the hot sun burning through it from the other side. I donīt know how people get used to this sort of weather. I walked around, had breakfast and went straight for a nap. I thin...

Spent 2 days in this beach town. Much more of a holiday place, I liked it better than Cahuita village. The beach right in town wasnīt that great but we walked to Playa Cocles about 2k away on our first day and on the second day we took a bus 12k to Manzanillo. This is where the road on the Carribean side of Costa Rica ends so it is pretty unspoi...

We left Bocas via an amazing boat trip through a jungle canal. It was small and narrow and shallow with the jungle encroaching on each side, brown water and the occasional rough-built shack on the bank, complete with naked children and hand made canoes. We were lucky to have been on the boat with two young women who spoke Spanish as there were n...

I stood on the bridge, looking down the steep jungle r*vine to the brown rocky river gushing below, there w*s no w*y I w*s going to do it. "Tooooo feckin' high, I think I'm gonn* die!" They st*rted ch*nting the counting down ... 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. I looked up *t the horizon, thought "feck it", *nd le*ped off the edge plumetting down 80m *t termin*l...