Tortuguero

Tortuguero is on the Northern part of the Caribbean Coast and is accessible by boat and air only. We drive from Punta Uva to the tiny settlement of La Pavona where we leave our car and catch a small boat, half an hour down the river to Tortuguero. We arrive at Read more…

Punta Uva

Punta Uva It’s quite a long drive but amazingly there seems to be very little visible Hurricane damage on the way. As we pass around San Jose and head towards the Caribbean, the landscape becomes more and more lush. To the right of much of the drive is densely forested Read more…

Monteverde and Arenal

Our next destination in the Monteverde cloud forest which sits on the continental divide of the Pacific and Carribean and is often shrouded in cloud because of its fairly high altitude.The road into Monteverde is so bad that it’s hard to believe that that this is a major tourist stopover. Read more…

Ostional

Parts of the road from Montezuma to Ostional, further north on the Pacific Coast, are fairly rugged in places and the rain doesn’t help. There are so many potholes in Costa Rican roads that you are forced with the choice to either drive very slowly and carefully or drive as Read more…