Last day in Costa Rica today and its been very...chill. The day's been a bit of a wash out as the heavy thunderstorm has rolled off the Caribbean to drench the town of Cahuita meaning I've been left with time to catch up on rest before a hectic final couple of weeks in Central America. I did manage to make a visit to the Cahuita National Park and walk part of the trail to 'Punta Vargas' and look out across the Caribbean. Then the rain came... I also managed to...

The biblical thunderstorms returned to flood Tortuguero this morning as I left along with a group of Frenchies on a shuttle boat south to the port of Moin - infamous as the site of a turtle conservationist's murder 5 years ago and the main port of entry for Costa Rica's cocaine. But once the thunderstorm calmed down, the journey to Moin was phenomenal. The canals are beautiful, lined with thick tropical rainforest right to the edges of the park, and beyond by i...