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| David invited estudiantes del español to the church bingo Sunday afternoon. Not many of us showed up to practice our números in a fun way. Our table. We were given corn kernels with our cards to lay on the numbers. A card cost 1 mil colones ($2) as fundraiser for the church. None on our table won a prize, though Corinna had a winning card. Plus food was for sale! We shared tortillas with cream cheese. Ticos use cream cheese instead of butter for lots of things. |
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| Bingo & Lunch for sale was right after 11 AM Mass. That is not when this older photo was made. That Mass is a packed house! |
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Here is one online recipe that doesn’t use cream cheese but a condensed milk and sugar filling. That is all I could find online. I guess it is just too local!”The place where I bought it used the name “Ronja Rellenos” for them, which I can’t find on the web. Another new experience!
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SERENDIPITY TRIP TOMORROW! Caribbean Coast and 3 nights in BriBri Indian Village.
The birding club had this trip planned for awhile with limited space in the humble lodging. I was on the waiting list. Well, last night there was a last minute cancellation and I decided to take it without any of my usual long range planning! Am I getting impulsive?
I have a 4W Drive vehicle reserved for in the morning. I’ll drive to the coast and to a hotel in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca called Cariblue, very nice and on the beach! Meeting some club members for dinner there.
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Then friday morning we caravan drive through the jungle through Bribri to Bambu on dirt and gravel roads, fording streams. At Bambu we pay someone to watch our cars and we take our “pack light” bags on a small boat for an hour floating trip to the village on Yorkin River in the Bribri Yorkin Reservation where we will stay 3 nights with no electricity at night (limited in day).
The Bribri are our hosts and will serve all meals, take us birding in the mornings and evenings with free time in the village and surrounding area with a waterfall and a hot springs. It will of course be a cultural experience with some of the few indigenous peoples left in Costa Rica. It is intentionally not promoted as a tourist destination. There’s only a half page in the Lonely Planet Costa Rica travel guide book about Yorkin. It is where people live and work and not equipped to handle tourists. Birders are different of course! 🙂
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The only websites on the village are by the various tour companies who take small groups there. I’m linking to Casa de Las Mujeres Yorkin because they have this good map. We are not using any tour company. Our birding guide has worked directly with the village elders and they are providing our boat transportation, meals, housing and guides into the forest in search of birds. So we are totally supporting the indigenous community.
A dream trip for me! How often do you have indigenous people taking you into an ancient forest looking for birds?
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Charlie have a wonderful time. Look forward to all the new bird pictures.??
never heard of stuffed grapefruit sounds an interesting combination
with the cream cheese.