Cien-pie (literally: a hundred feet)
Parrot Viper ... creepy
Thursday, 28 November 2013
El bosques de Monteverde y Santa Elena
The Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves are stunning examples of the beautiful cloud forests of Costa Rica. Spectacular views (almost always covered by cloud), serene rainforest, hummingbirds ... and then at night, the forest comes alive ...
Cien-pie (literally: a hundred feet)
Sloth .. the two toed variety....
Parrot Viper ... creepy
Cien-pie (literally: a hundred feet)
Parrot Viper ... creepy
La Fortuna and Cerro Chato
The town of La Fortuna, built on tourism, is centred solely around Arenal Volcano, Arenal Lake, and Cerro Chato. In this land of volcanoes, why not hike another?
Cerro Chato is an ancient extinct volcano with a small crater lake, covered in cloud forest. As with all volcanoe-hikes, the tracks are pretty steep, pretty slippery, and pretty beautiful.
The view of the crater lake ... cloud ...
The slippery trail back down the hill..
Cerro Chato is an ancient extinct volcano with a small crater lake, covered in cloud forest. As with all volcanoe-hikes, the tracks are pretty steep, pretty slippery, and pretty beautiful.
The view of the crater lake ... cloud ...
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Rio San Jaun - San Carlos to El Castillo
The night ferry from Isla de Ometepe to San Carlos was surprisingly comfortable. I rented this deck chair for $1, which meant I got a little sleep on deck.
Loaded in with the cargo of bananas and platanos.
San Carlos in the morning. A small town where Rio San Juan starts draining the waters of Lago de Nicaragua.
For two centuries Rio San Juan was planned to be the site of a grand canal joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to ships. However, before the project was commenced the US, under the advice of a feasibility analysis, chose to build the canal in Panama.
This decision has preserved the river and the environments of the massive Lake of Nicaragua.
However, with the Panama canal under the control of the US, a Chinese company has recently gained approval for the building of a canal through Lake Nicaragua. The canal will not follow Rio San Juan, but will build a large channel through the amazing forests of north east Nicaragua.
See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal
This is really bad news for the people, wildlife and environments of Nicaragua. Lets hope this project fails for some reason.
El Casitillo: a fort built by the Spanish when they were pilfering the gold and silver of the local people of central and south America. Granada was used by the Spanish to store all the gold and silver prior to transport back to the homeland.
Rio San Juan was used by the British Navy and many pirates (including Black Beard) to reach Granada to steal the gold and silver. El Castillo was one of three forts built to prevent them from reaching Granada. The defenses of the Spanish failed several times though and there is rumors in the air about many ships full of silver remaining to this day in the depths of Lake Nicaragua....
Loaded in with the cargo of bananas and platanos.
San Carlos in the morning. A small town where Rio San Juan starts draining the waters of Lago de Nicaragua.
For two centuries Rio San Juan was planned to be the site of a grand canal joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to ships. However, before the project was commenced the US, under the advice of a feasibility analysis, chose to build the canal in Panama.
This decision has preserved the river and the environments of the massive Lake of Nicaragua.
However, with the Panama canal under the control of the US, a Chinese company has recently gained approval for the building of a canal through Lake Nicaragua. The canal will not follow Rio San Juan, but will build a large channel through the amazing forests of north east Nicaragua.
See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal
This is really bad news for the people, wildlife and environments of Nicaragua. Lets hope this project fails for some reason.
El Casitillo: a fort built by the Spanish when they were pilfering the gold and silver of the local people of central and south America. Granada was used by the Spanish to store all the gold and silver prior to transport back to the homeland.
Rio San Juan was used by the British Navy and many pirates (including Black Beard) to reach Granada to steal the gold and silver. El Castillo was one of three forts built to prevent them from reaching Granada. The defenses of the Spanish failed several times though and there is rumors in the air about many ships full of silver remaining to this day in the depths of Lake Nicaragua....
Isla de Ometepe
A beautiful island, formed by two volcanoes, in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, with warm waters, pristine forests, and abundant wildlife ... soon to be destroyed by the proposed Nicaraguan-Canal - a mile wide canal, funded by China, proposed to run from coast to coast, through Lake Nicaragua.
2 nights was definitely not enough in this paradise..
2 nights was definitely not enough in this paradise..
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