Casa Ambar - Puerto Viejo

Our next house is down the road but still here in Puerto Viejo. We wanted to experience being lower in the rainforest instead of on top like we were at Big Tree. The house also has a pool which we thought would be great in the hot afternoons. We are also able to get bikes and ride from the house to the beaches instead of using a car.

Casa Ambar is home for the next few days. The house is set up nice with 2 bedrooms on either side with a nice size living area in the center that opens up to the pool. The house is all screened and gets nice breezes throughout.

We spotted a sloth in the trees behind the house and there are many birds.

Our first night we had some mishaps with the shower flooding and when we came home from dinner no power. Luck the rental agent gave us an app to contact her and both problems were solved quickly. We did have some fun with getting to use our head lamps while we had no power.

Our last morning at the house we woke to the howlers, 4:30am and they were very close. They went on for a very long time, finally as the sun was coming up Marj and I went out to see if we could find them. They were still chatting away in the trees and it sounded like the ones just behind the house but we couldn’t see them. I got my coffee and was sitting down when I saw the branch move.

Sure enough there they were right in front of us. There were lots of young ones playing with each other, swinging from tree to tree.

The older ones seemed disinterested and just sat around watching.

We watched them for a good 2 hours as they moved trees coming closer to the house. They gave us a great show for our last morning here in Puerto Viejo.

This female is carrying a newborn.

Car leaves 8:00am for San Jose.