Our trip to Costa Rica

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Trip outline

Page 1 [Tortuguero] - Page 2 [Tortuguero] - Page 3 [Tortuguero] - Page 4 [Tortuguero & La Paz] - Page 5 [Arenal & MonteVerde] - Page 6 [MonteVerde] - Page 7 [Quepos] - Page 8 [Manuel Antonio] - Page 9 [Pacific Edge] - Page 10 [Corcovado] - Page 11 [Irazu & Cahuita] - Page 12 [Pacuare] - Page 13 [Pacuare] - Page 14 [Central Valley, Boston]

Corcovado

Corcovado is the largest and wildest national park, located in the Osa peninsula (SW of Costa Rica, on the pacific coast). We intended to do a 3 day tramp through the rain forests. The first day is about 9 hours of walking. It was very very hard - you have to walk parts of the way on the beach, it was about 40 degrees, hot and humid. Eventually, after almost dying of thirst, we were saved by an Austrian angel named Gette (or something like that, I'm not sure how to write it, We never got her E-mail, unfortunately). The next day we came back with a plane. It was much quicker (And also very cheap).

At the beginning, all was great. We started out early in the morning, with a detailed map of the area. We walked on the first beach for a while, and then entered the forests and saw some anteaters, coates and lot's of Scarlet Macaws. Corcovado has some great beaches and forests and animals. The first picture you see here is the map that the ranger gave us.

And then you walk and walk and walk and walk, through beautiful beaches and rivers and forests.

One of the things I love in the Tropics are the Coconut trees. You can see how a little tree has grown out of the Coconut seed (or fruit. Or nut. Whatever).

And then some more beaches. We didn't take a lot of photos on Corcovado - we were busy sweating. And dying (I was, anyway, Michal was quite alright).

La Sirena! That's the ranger's station at the end of day 1, near the airplane landing strip. You can see Gette in these pictures, too. It was a beautiful sunset this day.