Terrapin Lodge Carate

... maybe spot some birds (he's a keen ornithologist); this sounded like a good idea to me as well so we joined forces to get a taxi down to Cabo Matapalo, the very tip of the Osa Peninsula, where there are supposed to be several short walks into the jungle that you can do, including one to a waterfall. Well we found that trail, but all the other paths we found led back down to the beaches. Perhaps this ...

... a couple of surf breaks along the way. One reef break in Drake Bay which is really mellow. Definitely a long board wave. The other, further up the bay towards the river mouth, but tucked into a corner of that bay holds a huge wave... Even on today's light swell it was charging through at well over head high. The guide says it gets massive.

... int**essanten Typen aus den USA, d** als Lehr** in Thailand gearbeitet und eine Zeit in China gelebt hatte. Nach dem Essen gingen wir ins Zelt, um uns einzurichten. Dies war all**dings nicht ganz einfach, denn es gibt in den Zelten keinen Strom, nur eine K**ze, d.h. man sieht nachts nur wenig. Was auch dazu beitraegt, dass man sich im Tent Camp d** Natur wirklich nahe fuehlt. Uebrigens: Die Anlage liegt auf ein** grasigen Klippe direkt hint** dem ...

... was hoping I wouldn´t have to jump in and be co pilot. The flight was exhilarating, and seeing the topography of Costa Rica was amazing. As we got closer to the Osa Peninsula, we were wondering where the runway was, and before we could ponder further, we were landing on a small, dirt airstrip parallel to the beach. We loaded our bags onto the luggage transport, a horse drawn cart. Suddenly, it started to ...

... went to check out the bus schedule and when the shuttle left. from that point however, kirsten, as stingy as she is, one of the many things i love about her...and kevin, a guy from jenna´s school who had decided to come for the weekend with us, decided that they didn´t want to spend the $35 to take the shuttle...meaning that they would have to take a town bus all the way around the bay and then take a ferry back up and then take another bus to ...

... back through La Palma and then onto a 14km stretch of road that had over 25 river fords; often the river and the road were the same thing and Sheila had to walk ahead to try and fathom out where the road went! Memorable motoring but I now write this from our own little jungle hide-away surrounded by innumerable bird and insect noises and with two toucans just around the corner. The dense jungle part has given us much less fauna to look at than the coastal portion but the ...

... stretch of road requires a 4x4, can't do it without). The stretch from Matapalo to Crate is disastrous. Lonely Planet lists this road in the top ten worst roads in Costa Rica (you know its a terrible road when its in the top 10 list of bad roads of a country that has the worst normal roads ever, seriously the normal roads are terrible here). Really glad we have a 4x4 so that we can actually ...

... weiter zu fahren (von einem Ranger hatten wir den Hinweis bis nach Carate fahren zu muessen). Der Strassenzustand wurde immer schlechter und fast glaubten wir, dass unser Jimny die Strassen nicht mehr bewaeltigen kann - er hat sich aber durchgebissen. In Carate angekommen, sehen wir vereinzelt Lodges. Wir beschliessen jedoch, erst mal bis zum Ende zu fahren. Und siehe da, nach einem extrem steilen Anstieg ist die Strasse zu Ende und wir befinden uns Mitten im Wald auf dem ...

... to go before we reached La Leona Ranger Station, our last stop before exiting Corcovado. Following that was an additional 4 kilometers to the first town, Carate. The entire stretch was a beach trail, moving along the southern coastline of the Osa Peninsula. Some of it would be under the shade of the jungle which skirted the edge of the coastline. Most would be done on the sand directly under the scorching sun.

... ou fous?)! Aux deux tiers du parcours, nous avons vus des singes a face blanche. Ils etaient tres curieux et amicaux! Nous avons donc pu les voir de très près (quelques mètres). Nous avons donc decides de passer la nuit a La Leona, le point d'entree du parc, plutot que dans le village de Carate. Nous sommes arrives epuises après 9hres de randonnee! Cette journee là, j'ai bu 4,5 litres d'eau! Jour 22 Le ...