The journey from Monteverde to the coast was long and slow. We had a driver who didn’t speak English, was extremely cautious and never once went over 50! The first section of Road was quite rough and we followed an even slower pick up truck that built up a huge queue of traffic which, eventually, seemed to manage to overtake both us and the pick up! When he finally turned off and the Road improved as we got lower down the mountains we came behind a gaucho he...

Pictures added. May not be in chronological order!

Apologies for the orientation of the volcano! Just to go back for a moment, on our return taxi journey back from the town yesterday the driver, having established that we were English, stated that he had two questions for us. 1. Was Robin Hood a real person? 2. Was King Arthur real? Now I’ve had a few chats with cab drivers over the years, but this one had me floored I must admit! I decided to go for maybe/maybe not for the first and a definite yes for the...

So, to carry on, we have arrived at Mawamba Lodge by boat followed by a nice lunch and a chill by the pool. An easy start the next day with a 9.30 garden walk with Brian, our guide. He talked about the tropical plants and some of their special characteristics and went on to spot Iguanas is the trees and a green basilisk. As I mentioned this is colloquially known as a Jesus Christ lizard because when scared he will paddle his back legs so fast that it looks like...

I am sorry that it has been a bit quiet on the blog front for the last few days. This has been caused by two factors - being a bit busy and rubbish wifi connections. So here we go on a bit of a catch up. Arrived in San Jose, the capital, in the late afternoon and were met by our guide to be taken to the hotel which was about 30 minutes from the airport, passing all the Christmas lights in the main street of the city on the way. The grandly named El Presidente...