Sirena

(Hugh) This trip is the jewel in the lodge’s crown and fully justified National Geographic’s description of Corcovado as “the most wildlife intense place on the planet”. Here we saw all 4 types of Costa Rica’s monkey within 30 minutes of starting our tour, all from only a few feet away.



All sorts of birds, the enormous Tiger Herons, “Great” Curucao and “Magnificent” Frigate Bird being my favourite. More of those dubious descriptive adjectives again in birds’ names – these go well with the “Resplendent” Quetzal. Finally, after some searching, a tapir – very hard to find even here and lovely to see one in the wild, chewing away on some leaves as if we weren’t even there.

(Monty) It was Mima’s birthday




and we went to see Tapirs but we didn’t find any. Then we went to the river with crosodiles in but there were no crocodiles. Then it started raining and I said I think I want to go back now. Then Mima heard some other people say I think there’s a tapir here and so we went back and it was a tapir. It had a nose like an elephant and it was quite smelly like a horse but not as smelly as the pig from Venezuela.




(Jemima) We woke up at 6am as we had to wake up early for a tour to Sirena, one of the best places to see wildlife in Costa Rica. We had breakfast early and Roberto our guide was already having breakfast, he came to join us for his main hot course and left on the boat at about 7.15. We had to leave the pier on one boat and then go onto another boat as the other boat was too big and low so we had to use the other boat to start. The journey was about one hour, we went on some awesome waves and when we got there we heard a taypia so we were all being very quiet but we didn’t see one. We saw lots of animals and it was very hot so we stopped for a rest at the power station (Ed. ? National Park Station) and then carried on.




We were very hot until it started to rain so we weren’t hot no longer we were freezing and cold. We went through the forest and walked by a river and then some people called us and said it’s a taypia, it’s a taypia and so we all ran and we saw it right in front of our eyes about 2 metres away it was amazing. Then we carried on through the jungle back to the power station to have lunch and we saw a snake that was eating a lizard, obviously he won’t be hungry for a while. It stopped raining and then we went back to our boat and went back to the lodge. We had supper and I nearly fell asleep at the table at the end but then the waiters came with a cake and sang happy birthday, THE CAKE WAS REALLY YUMMY.