Oceano Cabinas Golfito

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

Small village on the main road but Tucan Hotel set back. Not cheap and only 2 showers/toilets shared between up to 4 people in treehouse, 4 in hammocks, multiple others camping plus 12 people in dorms when fully occupied. Female shower/toilet always full of men as bigger - thankfully came when quiet.

Cocked up the directions to the falls, Cascadas Verde & didn't turn left before hardware store. Ended up crossing the river ...

After dropping Bev off at the airport we headed straight out of town. Of course this took us a good hour due to traffic and the inability to get proper directions! The map I we had purchased at a hotel the day when we came into the country was supposedly up-to-date, but so far I had counted around 10 mistakes. The San Jose portion was no different. By the time we got out of the city it was around 3 PM so we only had a few hours of daylight left and we still had to go ...

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Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado
Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant

... i decided to head back to puerto jimenez cause i had to catch a ferry at 6 the next morning. on the way back i had no luck with hitching so i walked the whole 11 miles in the sun. kat another volunteer caught the ferry at 6 to golfito to start our new volunteer job. the boat ride is about 1.30 hours. we arrived in golfito and met up with ron and trudy the owners of our new place. we gathered up our food fot he next week cause we only go to town ...

... Guard headed for deodorant aisles across the country, solve all of my personal financial dilemmas, make sure all information and accounts are accessible online, get my teeth cleaned, etc. So I probably won't have time to be very social. But my dear friend Todd wants to organize a going away party with a dress-like-your-favorite-maritime-theme d-TV/Movie-character, so let me know if you want to help him with that & I'll put you in ...

... trying to get myself going again. Leo came to the rescue and all is well. We reached 11,000 ft and now we're sitting at sea level. Drove past quite a few freshly cleaned up mudslide areas caused by above average rainfall. The scenery and roads are great and ever changing which keeps us looking forward to more. We've covered 10,000 kms to date and are roughly half way to our destination.

... raining season which ends in December. We arrive at a mirador (a natural area where you can easily see the volcano [something like an observatory, but not to really study it]), that is part of a Hotel (this was reachable by another gravel road). They charged an entrance fee of 3 dollars per person and you can use their installations. We discovered that we could walk on part of the "rain forest", so with raincoat on we went walking. We walked through a path that leads you to a small ...

... Le guide parlait également de pierres sphériques sur l'île, témoins d'une civilisation pre-colombienne et variant en taille de quelques centimètres a presque 2 mètres de diamètre. Vous verrez sur les photos que c'était plutôt décevant! Apres un repas crêpes à bord, nous nous couchons pour une courte nuit avant d'appareiller a 1h du mat mercredi matin (c'est l'heure idéale pour les marées, afin d'être pousses dans le bon sens jusqu'à notre arrive dans le Golfo Dulce et notre ...

... back. Again I collapsed in the hammock and spent the afternoon there. That evening I made the remaining fish for dinner. As I was eating Anna joined my and we had a nice chat (great practice for my Spanish). Among other things, she told me of the village gossip. The people next door who had 3 houses on the block (one huge) and who owned the 7 Seas restaurant - the wife had married a gringo, he died, she got lots of money. Turns out most of the ...