Due to the patience and generosity of Manuel, the Manager and staff I had a great 4 days at the Reserve. It was much appreciated at the time and re-reading this extract brings back great memories. I had a lovely ensuite double bedroom and lots of field trips with opportunities to practise spanish as Read more
By good luck, as the guide book suggested this was expensive to do solo and the low season too, the Posada man arranged a motor lancha trip from Puerto Viejo upriver to the Nicaraguan Border, along the Rio San Juan through the Barra del Colorado Refuge to Tortuguero. The trip took Read more
For those of you interested in the nuts and bolts of the otter research and river dynamics …read on! A. GENERAL The study area was parts of 4 rivers in the lower agricultural and wooded valley emanating from the high forested land around the Arenal Volcano and Monteverde cloud forest. Read more
We stayed during the week at the ICE Field Station in San Isidro Village which had offices a canteen, TV room and several accommodation blocks. Our days started about 6am with breakfast comprising all the time of fried rice and beans (pinto), occasionally scrambled egg or cheese or advocado or fried banana with coffee Read more
Great few days hiking during the day and at night into one of the world´s best natural wildlife refuge situated in SW Costa Rica on the Peninsula De Osa. Got back couple of days ago, tired, dishevelled and all my clothes, rucsac with everything smelling of damp, sweat, suncream, old food, Read more
We had about 9 days leave from work due to Easter week (Santa Semana), so K and I went to the Atlantic coast where locals or Ticos go for their beach hols and chill out with tequila and surfing. This supplements the cool dudes from all over who purchanced on paradise and bought up a piece Read more
Many people were friendly and happy to assist with my limited Spanish. I managed to ask directions to a bank and tackled 2 bus journeys, finding the exact bus stops in a maze of ´stops´ around Allejula and understood departure times for a trip to a Butterfly Farm about 12 miles away. The pupa are exported to zoos or gardens around the Read more
The 1st week was spent getting used to the different weather and my lifestyle compared to the UK. The temperature was a balmy 25 to 28 degrees with a brisk wind and mostly blue skies. There was time on my hands after years of full-on studies, working and mixed health to just sit in plazas watching Read more