Caribbean Costa Rica

Caribbean Costa Rica

CARIBBEAN COSTA RICA The 205km drive to the port city of Puerto Limon takes us around 5 hours on jammed roads, having to continually overtake slow moving trucks and cyclists.  The route takes us via a toll road through Braulio national park and the busy highway 32 all...
Monteverde Cloud Forest

Monteverde Cloud Forest

28th October   MONTEVERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE The towns of Monteverde and Santa Elena sit between two cloud forests which straddle both sides of the Continental Divide.   Warm and humid winds from the Caribbean sweep up the mountain slopes where they cool and...
Costa Rica – Arenal

Costa Rica – Arenal

27th October      ARENAL In the morning, the sight of the looming Volcano Arenal is a majestic one, standing like a huge sentinel overlooking the serene waters of Lake Arenal and pastured green hillsides. The volcano was dormant for hundreds of years before...
Costa Rica – Volcano Tenorio National Park

Costa Rica – Volcano Tenorio National Park

25th October We wake up to a lovely sunny day.  After a breakfast of gallo pinto, eggs and fruit it’s an 80km drive to Lake Arenal along a slow-going long stretch of road which is under construction, hundreds of orange-clad workers, mud and heavy machinery for miles. ...
Northern Costa Rica-Monkeys and baby sloths!

Northern Costa Rica-Monkeys and baby sloths!

(We have managed to fall behind with the blog, just not having enough hours in the day to do everything, so we are jumping ahead to the present and will try to catch up with the rest in between!) COSTA RICA     23rd October    LA CRUZ After escaping a Nicaraguan scam...