Bosque del Rio Tigre Osa

... ready. We reached the La Leona Station about 3 km later and had breakfast in their garden, already hot and sweaty.

Before I get to the actual trek let me tell you this story:-

When I was about five years old we used to live on a farm up in the mountains in the Western Cape. I was sitting on my bed when I heard a sound coming from underneath it. I looked under and staring me in the face, head reared and hissing vorociously was a Cape Cobra snake. I managed to make ...

... machen uns gleich mal auf den Weg zur **sten Wand**ung und freuen uns auf die Ti**e des Dschungels. Schon auf dem besagten Landestreifen sehen wir einen Nasenba**en und einen Tucan. Im Wald kommen wir an ein** Nasenba**enfamilie mit vielen extrem niedlichen Jungti**en vorbei. Voll konzentri**t auf den Weg vor ihm stoesst Sascha dann ploetzlich fast mit einem Ameisenba**en zusammen, d** sich direkt am Weg an einem Baum platzi**t hat. Er war ganz oben auf uns**** Wunschliste d ...

auch wenns hier viel Kriechtier gibt und es scheisse heiss ist. Aber Dschungel ist toll. Weil wir zu spaet losgefahren sind (verlass dich nie auf die Infos im LP) kamen wir zu spaet an, und mussten noch einen halben Tag in Puerto Jimenez bleiben um alles zu organisieren. Dann ging es im Viehlaster (hier auch Collectivo genannt) nach Carate, wo wir in eine Nacht in der Jungle-Lodge schliefen um um fuenf am ...

... they are actual, living breathing rocket scientists. Based in Colorado and working for Lockheed Martin. Now to most people this would not be that fantastic.... But remember I mentioned I'm a born GEEK. They are part of the team building the next generation of space capsule, basically the modern version of Apollo spacecraft. Steve is the true rocket scientist as he does "Propulsion" the business part of any rocket me ...

... After two days in his place cooling out and taking the provisions to visit the park, we headed in his boat to the heart of the Corcovado park, 45km away, to the Sirena Rangers Station, is on short walks from this station between 2-3 hours where you see more wildlife. After staying for a couple of days we decided to do the way back to the Van Van house walking, camping on the park was not allowed and the trail was close from 10days ago but we decided to do it anyway, but breaking the ...

... the area is isolated. His sister, Jene, was waiting with 2 horses to carry our things while we hiked 4 km. UP the mountain on a forested road. The school we visited in Alto Laguna had 40 children. They were being served a nutritious lunch. We had brought notebooks, pencils and rulers that we ...

Well a lot has happened in the past couple weeks, and unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to describe it all in detail by now, but I figure it's better to catch up later than never. The first week we spent some time in San Jose and met plenty of people from all over the world. Surprisingly about 75 percent of all fellow travelers happen to be from Canada for some reason, but there's others as well from South America, New ...

... We had an interesting set of bridges to negotiate where parts of the bridge deck were missing and only the I beams remained; you had visions of the tires getting caught between the beams and I felt them catch once! We are not really equipped for hiking with small rucksacks and a large tent but we put something together to get us to the first park rangers station where we could camp and day-hike. We learnt much later that in fact the main camp (16km further on) serves meals ...

... Raech´s parents had to leave. It was really nice to stay in one place for a few days and really catch up on sleep. The Osa was amazing and we saw loads more wildlife, the most impressive being the red Maccaws that were everywhere and just so stunning. On Pam and Rae´s last night we went out to a really nice looking Italian resteraunt for dinner. Raech and I shared a Pizza and Lasagne and were both liberally spreading the ...

... we saw the rainforest gradually descend from the inland where we had just hiked through the day before, eventually spilling into the ocean at the water's edge. Thick jungle mist rose slowly from the interior, and light sea mist sprayed us along the shore. Flocks of pelican flew along the horizon, skimming their way across the surface of the water. They were so far off in the distance over the churning ocean that, especially against the brightness of the sky, they looked ...