Imperial Costa Rica
And finally Costa rica part direction. We start from Genoa via Paris-Caracas after 18 hours and finally arrived at San Jose. Are 17:30 and here it is already dark. We are taking a bus and lead us to the b & b la trinidad to Alajuela. We accept the mistress, Germany. First, a timely question. We started with the intention of going on the Pacific coast and not to go on the Caribbean coast. Unfortunately it seems the ground is very bad time because of the tail dell'uragano wendy ... we have the impression that our travel plans will go to air. Let's go to bed early and wake up the next day at 6 am .... we decide to go and visit the butterfly farm. After learning all about these cute insects take the bus and go to visit the capital San José. Casado eat the first of our life and do a tour in the city. Since it began to rain we decide to go and visit the museum of gold pre. Cast from molten seek a bar where drinking a beer, of course imperial brand .. The next day we would go to the volcano Poas ... but is immersed in clouds, so we decide to try the arial tram to the park Braulio Carillo. We are taking a nice Costa Rican nicknamed "autistas". Stefano launches in Spanish and abandon his conversation with autistas ... which, unfortunately, being new to the profession (first had a store of fruit and vegetables, since the opening of a shopping center nearby, had to quit) is not knows well the way, even if any one ... we enter the national park and autistas be prudent to plan so that it forms an endless queue behind us and the insects spiaccicano you the glass back of the bus. Finally after 3 hours we arrive at their destination and after the Costa Rican driver's usual greeting, "pura vida", we prepare for the arial tram ... begins to flood. Equipped with rain ponchos to spend 1h 30min to observe from above the forest, between a drop and another. On the other hand, as our naturalist guide "a rain forest without water is like a restaurant without food." Let's go down to take a trip on foot in the forest. 3 we see toucans and bats. We return from autistas, we have left to become moldy in 3 hours by bus, but he greets us smile and offers to accompany us to the mall to shop. How odd deluge!
The shopping center more to him like that to us, even if every minute is expected to head out to check the presence of the bus ... we communicate an intention to go in the Caribbean .. we look shocked. According to him the Caribbean are very dangerous .. we still feel comfortable given its level of paranoia!
18/11 go to the terminal caribe clearly accompanied by autistas! We leave for Puerto Limon where we arrive after 3 hours. It makes a hot hog and humidity must be 100%. Moin to bring us to try to find a boat for tortughero. We are fortunate, for the modest sum of $ 30 a head is a boatman willing to ferries. Are 13:30, assures us that in 20 minutes we will be ready to go. At 15:20, when calmly arrive two other Spanish boys, we leave. After 10 minutes we were again stopped for petrol and munirci of waxed ... I have the impression that in the short diluvierà ! The channel of Tortuguero is beautiful, we see alligators, caimans and a group of flamingos, which come to us sin even thunder and lightning the inevitable rain. At 18:30, when it is dark, touch the ground, soaked wet. We go to Cabinas Tortuguero. Especially warm and dry! After a Caribbean dinner, for a change in bed early.
The next morning we take a trip in the park of Tortuguero where we do our first meeting with the Capuchin CEBI. I am desperate search of sloth, but so far no trace. At 14, we booked a tour by canoe with a Canadian biologist, who has a laboratory to Tortuguero and one in Bahia Drake, because I too am biologist praises and I intend to timely question! Unfortunately to reach 14 of the queue ' Hurricane Alpha, which forces us to abandon the trip for now. The refer to tomorrow morning at 6:00 ... We go to dinner and take a rum in a canal where clubs raging karaoke, we stop to talk to a Nicaraguan ragzzo working in CABINAS. We talk about the political situation in Nicaragua and how the wealth is distributed much better here in Costa rica are tardissimo is 23:30 and we would expect un'alzataccia .. for a change!
6 to finally go with the sun in a canoe with three children in Tel Aviv .. Three-hour tour on the canals. Paddling here and there we meet an alligator ever see the monkeys and the altar ... but no green sloth. Let's go back to the hotel and prepare for the luggage we embark on the return journey, along with three boys in Tel Aviv. A trip finally relaxing and especially with the sun, tortughero appere much more beautiful than the platoon-trip journey. We stop to observe the caimans, the green iguanas and flamingos shortly before arriving at last .. I see my first sloth tridattilo anchored to a tree. Excites me and snap a photo danger to overthrow the boat! At the pier there is a bus for $ 5 that leads us to Cahuita. With us, a boy travels olondase I recommend that you go to bed at Cabinas Spencer Seaside, it seems that circulate in the garden of sloths! Argument that convinces us to follow his advice. The CABINAS is on the sea and in the garden there are rilassantissime hammocks. The operator "hey man" is a Jamaican that fully respects the customs and habits of his land. Cahuita is a small town with dirt roads and very quiet, how could it be otherwise? Jamaican atmosphere we like very much. The next morning we go to the beach and do a tour in Cahuita National Park that runs along part of the beach. Make hot, there is the sun and the water is warm. In the park we stop playing with a cebo and the way back we meet a dozen or spider monkeys. Spend the afternoon relaxing on the beach, but to get 15 groups of monkeys to eat right above our heads .. say that in Costa rica there never bored. Let us return to our CABINAS for us to shower and rest. Outside is full of children who are a large casino, go out to see what happens. Are playing with an animal that seems Bradipo .. A is for earth and is trying to escape all'orda barbaric, but he expects something worse! One child I recommend that pet has a fur .. ispido but it is beautiful with its musetto wet! Corro room to call us and stefano muniamo all the technology we have .. binocular, battery head camera with camcorder and teleobbiettivo .. let kids speechless that we are curious and happy to skip around to see the sloth (actually are two but one is so determined to remain on the palm) from another perspective. Meanwhile, the sloth has gone up on us armiamo palm .. patience .. sooner or later fall. Meanwhile darkness falls! Shortly after eccolo them, reappears and you decide to go down, we are off between the children and do everything that we should not do with animals: The aim of the pile head and the movie. It is not so slow. But it is amazing. It seems that sloths fall to the ground once a week to make their needs ... i would say that we were lucky, he un po 'meno! All excited we are going to take a drink and then dinner!