Osa Resort Club Puerto Jimenez

... entering from Drake Bay, was inaccessible to us at the time we wanted to go due to heavy rains flooding some of the path. This was probably a good thing in hindsight as on our return from the park we met an Irish guy who had done that trail with his girlfriend. After 18km walking in knee deep mud and fearing they would not do the river crossings in time they finally reached the Serena Station where his girlfriend promptly burst into tears. Doesnt sound like fun to me. Our trail was ...

Paul has persuaded me to trek 20km in the jungle, stay overnight in the jungle and then trek 20km back. I{m not quite sure how he did it. Maybe I was drugged. <br>This national park, Corcovado, is supposed to be one of the last great wildernesses, another plus for me eh?, full of jaguars and pumas and tapirs and therefore snakes, spiders and mutant ants that bite. The terrain is supposed to be rough and the mosquitos and heat unbearable. Ooh, it sounds like a holiday. We had to ...

... our lost member sleeping on the beach. all the volunteers are getting along so well and we cook all our meals together and play games together. hackysack has become the daily thing. i have a bunch of pictures on facebook for anyone that wants to check them out. I will have more soon. I am going to Corcovado next week to camp for a bit and then to a new volunteer location with another volunteer. The place i am going is another garden to take ...

... Sure, his conversational English is not great - Monica especially is enjoying correcting him and teaching him new words and phrases - but for the plants, trees, animals and birds he is almost like a walking encyclopaedia, often knowing the Latin names as well! In the afternoon we went on a canoe trip up the Rio Sirena. This was awesome in itself. In the river, bull sharks were casually swimming around; many species of bird were ...

... it was worth it. It made it all the more worth it. At Corcavado we saw some more wildlife: squirel monkeys, spider monkeys, white faced monkeys, scarlett makaws, ant eaters, and some weird racoon looking thing that kept stealing our food when we weren't looking. Now we're back from Corcavado and staying in Peurto Jimenez for a couple days before heading even further south to Pavones... that's all for now...

... Pavones je lustna majhna vasica, katero sestavlja kakih 20 his, 3 restavracije in 2 trgovine. V njej vecinoma zivijo americani in prodajajo okolisko zemljo ali pa imajo restavracijo. Bi pa rekla da je polovica od tega zensk, in to dobre surferke, s hudo postavo, od 30 do 50 let stare. Res to je pa prvic da sm kje vidla tok zensk surferk in to res dobr surfajo. Cez dan pa sam posedajo okol, klepetajo, cilirajo. Zivele ...

... and we saw a few huge cane toads. Corcovado - Day 1 The next day we set off on our trek, 16 km (10 miles) to the La Sirena ranger station in the park. When walking through the park, it´s very important to pay attention to the tides, because there are a few river crossings and points on the sea which can only be crossed safely at low tide. From the beginning of the walk, we felt like we were immersed in an open air zoo. On the way we saw (in order of appearance ...

... at a bar for a few nights, that was good times. but in the end i was glad to get out of nicaragua, and san juan del sur. so i left one morning, and jumped in a cab that took me to the boarder. from there i jumped on a bus to liberia, with the idea to then get a bus to tamarindo....unfortunetly, for me...part way to liberia, about 40 min from the boarder, the bus gets stopped by police, and again, unfortunetly for me ...

The four of us hit the beach early for some sun. I got out on the board for a bit. Surf was decent, but all I managed to do was to nose dive the entire time. Some sweet wipe outs. After introducing Charlie and Lisa to Gallo Pinto for breakfast, Chelsea and I retreated to the hammocks to chill and Charlie and Lisa headed back to the beach. About 20 minutes after sitting down in the hammock, Charlie walks up in lots of pain ...

... Sporting a tye dye shirt and thick glasses, he sauntered over and informed us that the holdup in the ferry to Puerto Jimenez was due to another type of holdup, apparently one skipper had shot another skipper dead (!) and the police had to remove the bodies (!!!) That also explains why all of the town had gathered at the pier and were talking excitedly on their cellphones. Jerry soon made himself comfortable and started espousing his theories ...