Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

I was feeling very refreshed after a great night's sleep - in proper beds! - back at Hotel Oro Verde in Puerto Jiménez where we had left our large backpacks while trekking in the jungle.  Today was going to be a bit of a recovery day, but I quite ...

... .  This bus is the one that goes all the way to San Jose but it stops at La Palma, about an hour away from Puerto Jiménez, which is the closest village to the Los Patos ranger station at the northern edge of the park.  From here we needed to take ...

... 's hike needed to get to the tiny hamlet of Carate from where the "colectivo" taxi would depart at 4pm to take people back to Puerto Jiménez.  At Carate there is a small supermarket, and you can only imagine how good a cold beer was after six hours of ...

A day of hiking around the Sirena ranger station, Corcovado National Park. The morning was spent hiking some of the trails around Sirena.  We had already seen a few animals on the hike in yesterday, mostly monkeys, and we were able to add a few ...