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If you rent a car, ask your car rental agent to
highlight the route from the agency office through San Jose to Highway 32 to
the Caribbean (Limon). If you become
hopelessly lost - and getting out of San Jose can be a real challenge!! - ask
a taxi driver to guide you to the entrance to Highway 32 and offer him $5.
Once you are on the highway, follow the big green and white road signs to
Limon, Cahuita, Pto. Viejo, Sixaola, etc. Aviarios is
approximately 31 kilometers south of Limon. Driving
time is approximately 3 hours without stops. Two very small signs announce AVIARIOS
DEL CARIBE, at the entrance to our driveway, on the left hand side of the
road. The gate is light green metal.
Another option and one we highly recommend is
traveling by Interbus!!. www.interbusonline.com
If you prefer to travel by our public bus system, you
must first get to the bus station...take a taxi to “El Gran
Terminal Del Caribe”, next to “El Complejo Kamakiri”. Every taxi
driver knows it. There are two bus stations for the Limon and Caribbean coast
area, so you must be sure to get to the right one! Buy a ticket to ‘Cahuita’ at the ‘Sixaola’
ticket window inside the station. The direct bus leaves San Jose at
6am, 10am, 1:30pm and 3:30pm (but
always phone first as schedules may change) with a 15 minute
rest stop just before Limon. You will be let off at Aviarios
if you advise your driver as you board (and again as you re-board after the
stop in Limon!) the bus. If you come to a two-lane iron-girdered
bridge that spans the Río Estrella you have gone one
kilometer too far. You will have to stop
the bus and walk back or continue to Cahuita and
catch another bus back to the sanctuary or hire a taxi!!! So stay watchful!
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