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Rincón San Josecito

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    • Day 65

      Bahía Drake, Costa Rica

      March 21, 2017 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

      It's one of the most isolated places in Costa Rica but Bahía Drake (pronounced drah-kay) was well worth the effort to get to, especially as a jumping off point to visit Corcovado National Park.

      It took us about 4 hours to drive from Manuel Antonio to Drake Bay on a somewhat roundabout route. On the map it looks like the road is right on the coast but in reality we only caught glimpses of it every now and then between palm tree plantations and forests. Eventually the road goes inland to Piedras Blancas, where we turned off (well actually we missed the turn originally didn't we, Shorty!?) back to the west towards Peninsula de Osa. This route took us past Golfo Dulce, but again we only periodically had glimpses of this stunning gulf between the trees. After driving a decent while without seeing much of anyone or anything except for forests, the town of Rincón was an unexpectedly large settlement for Costa Rica but it also saw the end of the paved roads. A quick pitstop for a cup of joe and a fruit shake and we buckled in for the last 20km or so stretch on unpaved roads.

      These unpaved roads didn't have any signs and we frequently reached a fork in the road that we'd just have to take a gamble with because even with our google maps on, we weren't really matching up with being where we should be. Terry had to take on three river crossings, for which we were thanking our past selves for doing the research on needing to hire a 4WD. Supposedly in wet season the road becomes impassable and I can definitely believe that. The rivers were still quite deep in parts so it took a bit of guess work on where best to drive. We were just hoping there was no more rain while we were in the area! Perhaps these roads all join up eventually or we have some good intuition but we somehow made it to Drake Bay just before nightfall and managed to get a quick glimpse of the beautiful deserted beach. What is this place!

      After driving for so long without seeing signs of much civilisation, it was slightly bizarre to suddenly find the village at Drake Bay. Like other places we've been to in Costa Rica, it was quite small and mainly just one street with a dairy, fruit and vege store, a handful of restaurants, tour companies and the like.

      We pulled up to Paradise Lodge, our home for the next couple of nights to find the lovely owner Lucy and our wooden hut (or cabina as they're called here) amongst a lovely garden come forest. For less than the price of a hostel dorm, it was a no brainer to stay in a nicer place and have a private room for the four of us, especially after a couple of nights in the prison cell dorm at Manuel Antonio. Lucy quickly got us organised onto a tour for Corcovado National Park the following morning and then explained about the animals we might see even just in the garden here. In the end we didn't spend much time there in the daylight so only really saw a handful of birds and a rogue toad! Supposedly they saw a tayra (weasel like thing) while we were on our tour though. It still amazes me how many animals there are in this country and the fact that you can see them amongst areas of civilisation so often.

      We had hoped to make use of the simple outdoor kitchen and do some of our own cooking but the prices at the supermarket (really just a dairy) weren't great nor was the produce so we figured we'd just stick with going out. We had to succumb to the hamburgesas again. Help. Thankfully the comida rapida (fast food) place we went to also knew how to make a mean fruit smoothie. It's all about balance right...?

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    • Day 169

      Corcovado: Wanderung-> Playa Josesito

      February 6, 2018 in Costa Rica

      Statt teure Touren für 90 Dollar in den Nationalpark Corcovado oder zur Isla de Cano zum Schnorcheln zu buchen, sind wir am Strand und einem Nationalpark entlanggewandert und haben dort geschnorkelt. Nur es war irre anstrengend bei der feuchten Hitze, bergauf und bergab am felsigen Ufer mit vielen kleinen verwinkelten Badebuchten und durch den Dschungel. Viele Vögel sahen wir und in der Badebucht Paare von Aras. An einem Strand kam ich den Kapuzineräffchen zu nahe, sie zeigten mir wütend die gefletschten Zähne, oh Schreck.
      Olinda lief eine Strecke mit uns und filmte!
      Völlig ko. Kamen wir abends zurück und mussten im Billigrestaurant mindestens ne Stunde warten, aber wir quatschen mit den Jungs aus Berlin, dem Israeli Ofear und Ionas aus Griechenland.
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    • Day 51

      Wanderung an der Küste Teil 2

      May 25, 2018 in Costa Rica ⋅ 🌧 28 °C

      Etwas müde geht es weiter und wir wandern durch Dschungelabschnitte und an langen Stränden entlang. Es ist wunderschön, aber auch sehr anstrengend und es dauert länger als gedacht. Das letztes Stück geht oft ganz schön steil bergauf und bergab. 😝Read more

    • Day 7

      Corcovado National Park

      July 12, 2019 in Costa Rica ⋅ 🌧 26 °C

      Om 6:30 vertrek met de boot naar ons vertrekpunt voor de hiketour. Vanwege Jesse zn oorontsteking helaas maar met zn tweeën ☹. Stille hoop om de tapir en de miereneter te zien. Bij het vertrekpunt bleken we een privétour te hebben. Onze gids had alleen zn zwager meegenomen. Het eerste deel in de stromende regen (wie denkt dat het oerwoud regen tegenhoud heeft het mis) deels over het strand de tapirsporen gevolgd. Helaas bleek deze lastig te vinden. Onderweg door de secondary forest ( het was inmiddels droog) veel geleerd en gezien w.o. een hele neusbeer familie die zich redelijk makkelijk lieten fotograferen. Op de terugweg eindelijk de tapir gespot die heel relaxed in de modder aan het rusten was. Wat een prachtig, uniek dier! Deel 2 voerde ons door de primair forest naar een waterval waar we even konden afkoelen. Onderweg werden we verrast door prachtige ara's, brulapen en toekans. Na een smaakvolle lunch op het rangerstation weer terug met de boot. Dit park is uniek, prachtig, ongerept en totaal nog niet overspoeld door het massa toerisme.Read more

    • Day 71

      Playa Rincon de San Josecito

      July 3, 2021 in Costa Rica ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      I had to cross three rivers to get to this secluded beach 🏝😀 The good thing about the effort of getting to this place is that I had it all to myself 😎

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