So we flew into San Jose from Lima Peru and stayed in San Jose but a night as it is crap and very american.
We bussed it to the Caribean coast to a nice little relaxed town called Cahuita. this place was great, everything is relaxed here, it is right on the beach and the national park trundles along the coast fringed with sandy beached and crystal claer water. We ate a lot of RICE N Beans as is the stapple here, I was loving it but I feel Claire found it all a liuttle bland. the fish was tasty and REd Snapper is the norm.
We wandered through the national park here seeing crabs, jesus christ lizards, lizards, frogs, birds, spiders and monkies, one stole claire`s bun and they are really cheeky and come at the slightest chance, they will ransack your bags when u leave them ont he beach!
Tortuguero – This is a national park on the North Caribbean coast, it is the breeding ground of the giant leather back turtle (although we wandered the beaches one night looking for them and only came across their tracks – huge as they were!) We took a boat for5 hours up the canal that runs from Moin to Totrtuguero the scenery was amazing forest right up to the river (they call it the Little Amazon). When we go there the village has no cars and consists of a narrow strip with the ocean on one side and the river system behind. We went on a canoe tour of the narrow canal waterways and national park saw lots of Camian (little alligators), Toucans, Otters, butterflies, lizards, herons and heard and saw Howler monkeys. It was a great place.
