We left Fonda Vela today – for once we weren’t going at a crazy time in the morning. Our destination was to Manuel Antonio.This for all intents and purposes was the last leg of the trip. In many ways saving the best until last. After two hours we stopped at a Costa Rican equivalent to …
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Cloudless in Monterverde
We were being picked up today at 7.30am, so another early breakfast. The walk to the restaurant took in a large winding wooden staircase. Pete really like the staircase and made me pose several times, I think the heat is maybe getting to him. One of the big pulls in the area is the Cloud …
Marvelous Monteverde
We got picked up at the hotel and ourselves and various other people from hotel pick ups headed to Monteverde. Monteverde is Spanish for “green mountain,” and traveling through a sizeable part of it became obvious why. Monteverde’s biggest draw is its unique habitat known as the cloud forest, which is named after the mist …
Dengue Fever
Pete started feeling really ill last night. Fever, headache etc. Googling the symptoms it transpired that it could be malaria, Dengue fever and a whole range of obscure jungle related illnesses. After a couple of days he felt better, stopped the malaria tablets as they could have been the cause, as well as having pizza …
Hanging Bridges
Unpacking the night before we realised that many of our clothes stank to high heaven. Pete kept saying they smelt of the rainforest. When we were in Tortuguero we didn’t notice it but having been stuck in a bag for half a day, they smelt musty and earthy in equal measure. I had also been …
Ta Ta Tortuguero
The time had come to leave Pachira Lodge. It had been amazing but the next leg of our journey was calling. Thankfully not at an ungodly hour, departure time was 8.30am. It seemed a long time ago that we had arrived and the journey back on the boat seemed to go faster on the way …
Turtle Catcher
Today woke quite bleary eyed. We had definitely found out what puts the rain in rainforest. The rain had hammered down all night, peeking through the window I could the water raising up bit by bit. I could now understand why the lodges were on stilts. Never, ever have we seen the deluge of rain …
Pachira Lodge
We finally arrived at Pachira Lodge, which Julio was at pains to stress was not a hotel but a lodge. To us it seemed like a hotel. We were greeted by a Shirley Temple mocktail, refreshing, gingery and very welcome after the journey. Set in 35 acres it was located 5 minutes by boat from …
The Amazon of Costa Rica
Well getting up and ready for 5.30am seemed huge the night before especially as we were both tired. However, as Costa Rica is 7 hours behind the UK our body clocks are completely off kilter. So wide awake at 2am we sat up in bed watching the distant electrical storms. This doesn’t do justice to …
Beautiful View …
Arrived in one piece at the Buena Vista hotel located in the Central Valley with amazing views of three volcanoes. Although it’s located in Central Valley it’s actually 4,200 feet above sea level, set with its own coffee plantation and nature reserve. The room was gigantic and certainly the ,’poshest’ place we have ever stayed …
Random Acts of Travelling 