EC-Rider Travels

We left Cala Luna after breakfast and headed to Liberia Airport – not very large but seemingly serving an amazing number of international cities. A slightly tearful farewell (on my part!) saying goodbye to Tim, Emma and Lottie as they headed to Miami and me to Houston. A short three and three quarter hour flight…

Today we were joined at breakfast by rather a sweet, but slightly injured, raccoon who apparently had her babies nearby. There was also a rather stunning jay/magpie which apparently are very common, but had a nice hair-do! Sadly there have not been as many beautiful birds as we had hoped we might see. My Christmas…

We have had a pretty lazy day by the pool when it was sunny and then continuing the chat inside when it was not. No visitation from the monkeys today but some impressive work by some Costa Rican ants who were carrying things at least ten times larger than themselves. I have to confess this…

I fear there may not be too much to report for the next few days as this is very much a R&R sort of place and we are doing just that! The hotel really is a little disappointing (I feel so sad for Tim, Emma and Lottie) – our little cottage is in the carpark…

Needless to say it was the most beautiful day today as we bid farewell to Tortuga Lodge and its lovely and incredibly hard-working staff. Early breakfast and into the little boat to cross the river to meet Alexus who was in charge of passport control and security – plus weighing us all again. There is…

We voted to do a second morning boat trip and this time it was with Monkey. Monkey did not speak for the first ten minutes and I felt we had drawn a bit of a short straw, but how wrong was I. He was just the best, a local guy who had not grown up…

It was quite a wet night! But dryish when we got up to set off on our first journey into Tortuguero National Park. This 26,650 hectare forrest was heavily logged for mahogany and palm and is thus a second growth forrest now heavily protected and dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles. The river itself…

Today we head for the jungle. Once again we were in plenty of time at the airport and sat at San Jose airport (domestic side – not too many retail opportunities ) for two hours as we saw smaller and smaller planes take off with different groups of people. At last we were called to…

With a head full of a horrible cold, I finally met Tim and Emma – so annoying as I had been looking forward to it for weeks. Still it was so lovely to see them and we had a happy breakfast together. Also excited about the delicious Costa Rican coffee we would be offered on…

Today has been another travelling day as we said a very sad farewell to beautiful Guatemala, Lottie and I have really loved it and still feel somewhat intoxicated by the wonderful experience we have had. I hope I will never forget the assault of all my senses visiting that wonderful market in Chichicastenango. We had…