La Amistad International Park
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If you can do it, stay in one of the cabins at Los Quetzales - #2 and #3 are best. Then you'll actually be nestled in the rainforest in the park. It's about a 25-45(?)minute drive in to the cabins from the lodge itself. (Or a nice hike without luggage). You could drive yourself back to either cabin (they're maybe 50 yds? apart but there's nothing ELSE there) but you'll need 4x4 with high clearance. We didn't even think our Terios would do it so had lodge drive us up and back. They do it in a truck with very high clearance and big tires. Cabins are rustic, though comfortable. Plumbing/running water, but no electricity. Lodge looks nice enough too though. And food was good at their restaurant - simple, reasonably priced. We had them bring dinner up to us one night and had a candlelight dinner party with our neighbors in cabin #3. We hiked around the "Las Nubes" area of the park itself also.
Beautiful country all around there. There are guides available, yes. I believe you get one easy walk with a guide for your lodging price. If the very charasmatic Abel is still there you'll enjoy him. He doesn't speak much English, but the most beautiful articulate Spanish. Highly entertaining fellow who works for the lodge. There are other local folks who have perhaps more knowledge of birds, etc that the lodge may be able to put you in touch with. I say may because it took some work on our part to get much info on how to do what in the surrounding area from the reception folks. (Perhaps due to language barrier, though we speak some Spanish.) So do your homework first about what you want to do and how to do it. We loved our two nights there - wish we'd had a couple more!
Beautiful country all around there. There are guides available, yes. I believe you get one easy walk with a guide for your lodging price. If the very charasmatic Abel is still there you'll enjoy him. He doesn't speak much English, but the most beautiful articulate Spanish. Highly entertaining fellow who works for the lodge. There are other local folks who have perhaps more knowledge of birds, etc that the lodge may be able to put you in touch with. I say may because it took some work on our part to get much info on how to do what in the surrounding area from the reception folks. (Perhaps due to language barrier, though we speak some Spanish.) So do your homework first about what you want to do and how to do it. We loved our two nights there - wish we'd had a couple more!
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