More pics from the beach. The Crocs in these pictures we saw in a real river - just pulled over to the side of the road and went up on the bridge and looked down!!!!!! Costa Rica has the world's largest biodiversity - more species here than anywhere else on earth. It is only the size of Nova Scotia - much of the country is desgnated as National Park and it is still wild and very very beautiful. Next time I have to stay longer and see much more.

You came to the happiest place on earth and you decide to only stay ONE week???? cried Diego, German and Rosa's middle son. Diego had told Louise and me earlier that a recent poll had reported that Costa Ricans are the happiest people on earth – even happier than the people of Bhutan who live towards a happiest quotient! I have to say, I saw that happiest factor everywhere we went, and if Costa Rica is the happiest country, we landed in the happiest ...

After a six hour bus ride across Panama - from Panama city to David, a quick sleepover in the last available Hotel room in David and then an eventful morning trying to get out of David (which included a taxi driver who told us he was calling the police on us after trying to rip us off for an extra 50 cents.....bring it on!) we finally found a bus to take us to San Jose Costa Rica.......well.....the bus we found made the Panamanian shaker look luxurious. Th...

hi everybody - quick check in. I am writing this from the lobby of a hotel in david panama - near the costa rica border (1.5 hours) kind of stuck here for a few hours as we thought we could take a early morning bus to costa rica but ...got up real early, off to the station to get the 8 am bus.....already sold out so here we sit waiting for the noon bus - takes about 9 hours to san jose which I hope includes the reputed two to three hours walking back and forth ...

Travelling by train is one of my favourite things……anywhere, anytime. Travelling by train along the side of the Panama Canal is just one of those bucket list experiences. When we were here a couple of years ago we just could not fit it into our schedule. It was the same for Louise and Wayne – they too had always wanted to do it. The difficulty with this train trip is that it leaves at 7:30 am, used to only go once a week, now it is daily, an...