Red Mangrove Adventure Lodge

We decided to stay at Red Mangrove Aventura Lodge, literally on the water, lovely deck we spend the first morning having a cup of coffee next to a marine iguana and sea lion at the hotel ...

... the best option!  We crossed from Baltra by boat to Santa Cruz island and we were transferred straight away to the Red Mangrove lodge in Puerto Ayora which is the main town.  We were greeted with a welcome drink and were given the key to our ...

... whether the people from the travel company were handling the bags or not, but we got there in the end. The 1st hotel, The Red Mangrove Adventure Inn, was very nice, we got a nice room with a king bed and view over the bay where the cruise ships moared ...

... . From here were hop into a ute (4 of us) and spend the next 30 minutes travelling across the island to the Red Mangrove Aventura Lodge. Very impressive - here we are met again by our naturalist guide (Marlon) and tour organiser (Jimmy) who fits us out ...

... , Wood Buffalo, Waterton and Grasslands) - I expect a late April or more likely a mid-May start to this next adventure. Hopefully I will be able to see all my family and Toronto friends before hitting the road again Tidbits - Drivers are pretty bad ...

... hear mine. Thursday 7th It was a hectic day:  We finally went to Jozani forest to see the Red Colobus Monkeys and Mangrove forests. Besides the stinging nettles, the experience was awesome.  The monkeys came too close for photography and ...

... in town, the majority of whom seem to be single males with a local girl in tow. Walking along the street is a bit of an adventure, avoiding the deep, sandy potholes in the dark, as well as cars approaching from both directions. Two cars can just pass, if ...

... but the last part of the journey is by boat and en route we saw crocodiles and monkeys as well as many birds, the adventure had begun! The turtles come onto the beach at night and organised tours take you to see them in small groups. It is very ...

... I feel like a dumb gringo for having worn my favorite shirt, which happens to be white. By the end of the zip line adventure, my shirt is drenched in mud. I have flashbacks to when I was a kid playing tackle football in the mud. After the euphoria ...

... noticing the rather hefty smell of sulfur from the mud that seemed to linger about us. (Jim's Jewel: The Buena Vista Lodge & Adventure Center. Closest to the mud pots, this log cabin complex has sweeping vistas of the mountains, with two bedroom ...

... goes sporadically from Canada to Mexico. Stretches of that are amazing, Jerome, AZ comes to mind. Basically, anywhere in the SW...lots of adventure, biking, climbing, ruins. There are a ton of places in WA, OR, CA, AZ, UT, ID, CO, WY, Alberta and ...

... morning, by bus at 5am in fact, which was all the more impressive considering Louise only stopped chatting about 2am! Our first adventure was in Corcovado National park. To get there we caught a bus, taxi then boat. The boat ride got very exciting ...

... introduce ourselves to the others and Joe didn't sttempt any getting to know one another games. We had to stop at the Adventure Tours office before leaving Cairns so we picked up some water and made use of the facilities, labelled Tarzen and Jane this ...

... . Here too is where Cristobal Colombus camped a year whilst shipwrecked on his last voyage to the Americas. Make a day an adventure by bypassing expensive tours or taxis by getting route taxis into the cockpit hills to tour bob marleys birth and final ...

... would have made all the difference to the experience, being able to freshen up before sleeping. None the less it was a great adventure, the jungles here is spectacular and more than made up for not seeing any interesting mammals. Its age and beauty are ...