Panama Canal – 3rd June
Today we returned through the Panama Canal. No need for any more photographs as it was exactly the same as last time we passed through the Panama Canal. Second time round it was a bit like watching paint dry.
Limon, 4th June – Veragua Rainforest
Today we arrived in Costa Rica, this time the other side of the country to Puntarenas. The temperatures again were high as was the humidity. We had a long tour booked today visiting the Veragua Rainforest and the Tortuguera Canals . There was a slight delay in departing on our tour as due to problems with the gangway we were prevented from leaving the ship and when we arrived on the quayside our coach had already left without us. However, they quickly arranged a minibus to chase out of the port and catch up the coach which had been instructed to stop.
We had a pleasant hours drive inland through the Costa Rican countryside, over unmade roads before we arrived at the Veragua Rainforest, which was a part tourist and part research establishment. Here we walked through various enclosures with lizards, frogs, spiders, snakes and butterflies, which are native to Costa Rica.
Afterwards we ventured along a broadwalk into the Rainforest, where we boarded an aerial tramway, which took you deep down into the rainforest. We then had an hours walk through the rainforest to a hidden waterfall via 350 steps. En route we saw some of the wildlife that we had seen in enclosures in the Centre.
After our walk through the forest we returned to the Centre for a well earned lunch before boarding our coach to the Tortuguera Canals.
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