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Viaje al Caribe - Trip to the Caribbean

SPAIN | Saturday, 11 December 2010 | Views [595]

Hola a todos!

Los ultimos 4 dias los hemos pasado en el Caribe. Primero fuimos a Tortuguero y ahora estamos en Cahuita.

El viaje desde La Fortuna hasta Tortuguero transcurrio en un 90% por carretera asfaltada lo cual fue gratamente acogido por nuestros ya perjudicados cuerpos. Fue un viaje largo (5h) pero muy bonito atravesando Costa Rica de Oeste a Este por carreteras sinuosas hasta el puerto en La Pavona, en donde dejamos el coche. Como sabeis a Tortuguero hay que llegar en barco, asi que dejamos el coche aparcado dos dias y por suerte aun estaba alli cuando salimos de Tortuguero! El viaje en barco (bueno, mas bien era una lancha alargada con un toldo para protegerse de la lluvia) hasta Tortuguero fue ya toda una experiencia y tuvimos mucha suerte porque no llovio nada. El pueblo de Tortuguero es muy pequeno, y da por un lado al Mar del Caribe y por el otro al rio Tortuguero.

Al dia siguiente, hicimos un tour en lancha por los canales de Tortuguero y fue espectacular, incluso a pesar de la lluvia. La lancha tenia un motor electrico super silencioso De lo mas interesante que vimos fueron los monos aulladores, 2 iguanas y un caiman. Tambien tuvimos tiempo de probar la comida caribena :)

Por la tarde dimos un paseo por la playa a ver si veiamos tortuguitas (los huevos estan enterrados y van saliendo cuando les toca, aunque ya es un poco tarde en la temporada), no tuvimos suerte y no vimos ninguna, aunque nos pillamos una mojadura impresionante, porque si algo caracteriza a Tortuguero es que llueve a mares...

Al dia siguiente hicimos la ruta inversa y volvimos a recoger el coche y llegamos a Cahuita, en el Caribe sur. El pueblo no tiene nada pero el parque es espectacular. Nos hartamos de ver bichos. Hoy salimos a las 6 am de caminata y nos encontramos de todo, monos, perezosos, mapaches, pajaros, iguanas...lo pasamos en grande, eso si nos dejo un poco hambrientos, asi que vamos a ver si encontramos un sitio para meterle algo al cuerpo.

Por cierto, hoy fue nuestro penultimo dia en CR, manana regresamos de un tiron a San Jose y saldremos hacia Madrid por la tarde. Todo lo bueno se acaba...esperamos que lo hayais pasado bien con el blog y muchos saludos a todos.

Hi everyone,

These last 4 days were spent in the Caribbean! Tortuguero first and then Cahuita.

The journey from La Fortuna runs through mostly paved roads which was good for our battered bodies. It took about 5h but it was quite beautiful going from the mountains on the west to the coast in the east all the way to La Pavona. This is a safe place where to park one's car on the way to Tortuguero, as you know the only way to get to Tortuguero is by boat, so we left our car parked there for 2 days, luckily it was still there when we came back!

The boat trip to Tortuguero was amazing, and as we found out later, we were extremely luckly that it didn't rain while on the boat. It started raining as we got to Tortuguero and it never stopped while we were there. Tortuguero the town is quite small, with the Caribbean sea on one side and the Tortuguero river on the other.

The following day we took a tour through the cannals with an electric motor boat and it was amazing even with all the rain. We made almost no sound so we didn't spook the animals as we got close. In the afternoon we walked in the beach hopping to see some little turtle hatchlings but it is quite late in the season and we didn't see any. We also had some time to taste some Caribbean food :)

The next day we took the inverse route and got back to La Pavona to pick up our rental car and we drove to Cahuita. The town is nothing to write home about but the park is spectacular. We managed to see many wild animal, they almost come at you as you walk the path. Today, we started walking today at 6am (best time to see wild life) and we saw quite the zoo, sloths, monkeys, racoons, iguanas, snakes and many birds, we had a great time. This, however, left us feeling really hungry so we are heading out to town to find some nice Caribbean food...

BTW, today was our second to last day in CR, tomorrow we drive straigth through (in a manner of speaking I am not sure there is any straight road in CR) to San Jose to take our flight back to Madrid.

All good things come to an end...we hope you enjoyed our blog and till next time. Best regards to everyone out there

 

 

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