Thursday, 28th January 2016So today is a happy birthday to my eldest sister Geraldine. Hoping she has a great day, but I doubt if she will be a blog reader. Once more, we have to be up at the crack of dawn because we have our final wildlife tour of this entire trip. We rush breakfast not to be late as every single tour guide or driver has been totally and utterly punctual. Joshua our latest guide is waiting on the dot of 8.30 to whisk us to the minibus where our...

 Wednesday 27th January 2016 Another day and another part of Costa Rica to see. We've already seen the Caribbean coast and the rainforest in Tortuguero, We've had time in the central area of Arenal and Monteverde both quite close but very different in temperature and climate. So today we are going to be driven the 190 km (120 miles) to a completely different area of the country. The very warm and quite humid region on the southern Pacific shore known as...