The Sloth Trail is located in the vicinity of the Bahia Honda Community, at the end of the bay with the same name, between Bastimentos Island and Solarte Cay.
This trail is coursed using local indian guides that can be hired in the restaurant of the community project, TIMOROGO, bringin you from there, in their wooden boats, by a tour that is amazing and captiviting.
The trail is compressed by two sectors, the first aquatic and the second by land. Once the boat leaves the restaurant, after 5 minutes navegating by the sea, enters in a creek that runs between a mangrove forest, first, and the trees of a rainforest, following.
This part of the course can take between 25 minutes and an hour, depending on the interest of the tourist. The trip is placid and the tanquility of the navigation in a rowed boat (the guides don't use the engine most of the time) makes the tour a relaxing experience, excellent for photography and videography.
During this section of the trip it is possible to observe many birds, small lizards and crabs, that disappear very fast and, almost inevitable sloths in the trees at both sides of the creek and, some times, in the branches over the boat. Usually it is possible to see baby sloths, some times looking as they are alone but, always, their mother is close to take care of the young as soon as they call her attention.
At last, the boat arrives to a small dock, the beginning of the second part of the course, as interesting as de other. Following a land trail with rustic wooden bridges, you will see an old and abandoned cocoa plantation followed by other of wild bananas and, then, you will enter in the rainforest. The trail continue to be easy to follow and to walk. In this part of the trail there is a place where locals collect a contibution of $ 3.00 per person, used to maintain the trail.
After walking 30 minutes you will be in front of a hill, that really is a very old coral reef that, due to the movements of the earth for thousands of years, ended in the middle of the island. From the interior of the hill, with a series of small caverns, emerges the same creek that was used before with the boat.
It is possible, whith a lot of care, enter in the caves where live thousand of bats that make an extraordinary noise when, at the sunset time, come out to feed on fruits and insects during their nocturnal explorations. Beautiful stalagtites and stalagmites serve as a frame to this spectacular end of the trail.
