Getting to the Eco lodge Tigre Salvaje was more adventure than I had bargained for. I had no idea just how remote this place was. It didn't help that there were almost no signs directing people to the lodge. After making U turns for what seemed like all day on the bad advice of the locals, I was ready to give up and head for home. Finally I asked a man who knew another man that worked at the place. We tracked him down and he showed me the road to Tigre Salvaje. He warned me that I couldn't make it there with the bike, but I didn't listen and tried anyway. I eventually made it to a place where the road had been completely washed out. I parked the bike unloaded my things and started hiking the rest of the way in. Once I made it to the lodge and showered they told me that my bike wouldn't be safe sitting in the middle of the trail overnight, and that I would need to hike back, ride it into the little village, then hike back again. If I wasn't too dumb to understand Spanish I could have avoided a lot of trouble. So when your watching this video and I'm talking like I've already been to the place, that is why. This is the first video in a series I will call "The Tigre Salvaje Adventure." I had a great time there. It was an amazing adventure, be on the lookout for the next episodes from this trip in the days to come.
The road's been pretty rough on the way to Tire Savaje.
This is where it ends. I'm gonna have to walk from here and actually there's a place, they told me
that there's a place for me to park my motorcycle. It will be safe because I'm going to spend the
night out there. But this road is absolutely destroyed. It's been a little rough getting
here. It's been really muddy but this is as far as this is the end of the road for me. So
turn around and hike the rest of the way. So I get this random email from some guy I've never
heard from and he tells me about Raquel's Ark which I went to and enjoyed somewhat even though
I was afraid of everything there. Oh my, did you see that? No, it's fine. And he tells me about
this place Tigre Salve. Salve. Damn it. I suck at Spanish so bad. This place they rescue turtles
and so I figure I'll go check it out. And I naively assume when someone says hey there's
a tourist place go check it out that it's gonna have a road. But there's no road and stay cool.
Stay cool Mr. Giant Cow. Thank you. Usually when someone says yeah you can go there but you can't
make it there on the motorcycle I say oh yeah we'll see about that. You don't understand.
This is a cow sucker. Don't you know who I am? This is the cow sucker. He can go anywhere.
Anyways I can't make it here. So yeah I uh I get to this place and uh well to find it there
there are no signs. I don't know what I'm saying. I need food. Damn it I need some food. You have to
walk about it's only like half an hour I guess. Maybe maybe an hour. I don't know. You probably
think that I'm making this up and I'm not. This is the road to a hotel. This is the only way to
get there unless I guess you took a boat from from somewhere else and the beach isn't all that great
anyway. So probably I'm guessing they don't get a whole lot of visitors. I don't know. Wild guess.
I haven't seen anybody else on this trail except for a lizard, a whole bunch of very busy leaf
cutter ants. Try not to step on them as I walk here. This place is almost impossible to find.
It's almost like you have to know someone. The motorcycle is about two hours from David.
So it's about one hour from David to the border. That right there is the Perpigre
I promise you I'm not making this up. I didn't like go the hard way because I wanted the video
to look like more hardcore. This is the only way to get there. This is a hotel in the middle of
nowhere. Normally I really despise hiking but this is actually quite nice. I've got this stick,
my little fancy hiking stick here made of bamboo. The ocean is right there. I don't
know if you can hear the surf over those horrible bugs but it's nice and cool. You're in the shade
because the canopy is so thick. It's quite nice. I can hear a monkey screeching over there right now.
That's a little scary. Never trust a monkey. I mean I'm right on the coast. Let me show you.
Turn like this. Ocean. Well guys I made it to the hotel finally. I think this is one of those
amazing places that and what makes it amazing is that it's so hard to get to and so few people
come here that if you're one of those few that makes it, it's uh it could be a really special
place. Behind me is the hotel. There's I don't know just only four or five rooms. Over here they
have some incubator little areas and what this guy does is he he hikes up and down the beach like
walks 45 minutes that way and 45 minutes that way looking for turtle nests. If he doesn't find them,
poachers will. Poachers will take the eggs and sell them to different restaurants and stuff.
Totally against the law. They do it for I think less than 10 cents an egg.
They are willing to destroy an entire species. Next time on Half Drop. And I just went hiking
up and down the beach taking some pictures and some video. I just left the door wide open
because there's literally no one else here to steal anything.
