Rio Dulce

A couple weekends ago Alex and I went to Rio Dulce, a town a little ways inland from the Caribbean on a river of the same name.

We stayed in this sweet screened in shack. All we heard at night were the jungle animals doing their thing. Pretty and relaxing. A great place to read and swim (of which we did a lot).

We walked into town to catch a bus through the outlying ranch country to see a certain waterfall (see next).

We went to a place called Finca Paraíso. That waterfall is fed by a hotspring = hotwaterfall. Hott.

We also kayaked across the bay to this castle. It was built in the 1500´s to keep pirates off the mainland and out of the harbor. The pirates, of course, commandeered it. Shiver me timbers.

The castle courtyard.

Over my right shoulder you can barely see a mess of shipmasts, that´s where we stayed (and where we kayaked from). We had to to kayak back as that more imposing mass of rain you see moved over the water. It was an epic aquatic adventure.

More Castle.

More news: since our trip to Rio Dulce, I have gotten sick, gotten better, and found a church. Hooray!