San Gerardo de Dota

returning to Trogon lodge in San Gerardo de Dota did not disappoint, twice we went to search for the quetzal, twice we saw it. last day we even saw three males. but none were posing as the one four years ago…

Corcovado – Sirena Station – Carate

Corcovado – Sirena Station

For the 3rd time in Corcovado, the Sirena park is amazing, just as we were used to. Again our guide was no other than Milton    

Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio

Parque Nacional Carara

La Selva biological station

  the day before we had a super fun day rafting down the Sarapiquí river

Sarapiqui

during the lock down and sequential period made us prioritise our next destination by a simple scale: which did we like most. we are now for the third time in Costa Rica, its wild life is just incredible

Quetzales

Next, we spent two days in Trogon Lodge, San Gerardo de Dota, getting up very early to stare at trees. Sometimes with a hint of quetzal behind branches and leaves but mainly just trees. Quetzals are strikingly colored birds, with iridescent green wings, backs and heads and a red belly. The male birds have large […]

Corcovado Hike (part 2)

Costa Rica, April 10-20 Arriving in our hotel in San José, minus one bag that stayed behind in Bogota but luckily made it the next day, we realized that so far none of the hotel rooms we stayed in had a window or proper lights. Maybe booking.com should start showing windows as room feature? As […]

Corcovado Hike (part 1)

Costa Rica, April 10-20 Arriving in our hotel in San José, minus one bag that stayed behind in Bogota but luckily made it the next day, we realized that so far none of the hotel rooms we stayed in had a window or proper lights. Maybe booking.com should start showing windows as room feature? As […]

Beauty and the cutie

(see full post for more pictures) the famous red-eyed frog…a must to photograph! i only got to see three (two weeks apart) this one left few seconds after i got this picture, i didn’t even have time to recompose the red posion dart frog, is about 2cm big, not that deadly poisonous but deadly cute

Tortuguero

(see full post for more pictures)

Carate beach 2

from now on i will include very often more images in one post, so if you’re seeing this from an RSS reader open the full post to see the content, same if you can only see one picture.    the beach wasn’t one of the nicest i’ve seen, but the variety of animals was amazing, not […]

Carate beach

well, it has been pretty quiet on the blog lately, working on a new design for the website, learning how to tweak it, bugging Cezar and Mike to help me when i was getting stuck, but here we are again! i will show first some of the pictures from Costa Rica, then some portraits i […]