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Picture 12,3 - Exotic Costa Rican Frog Display
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Picture 4- Kiss me Flower - Well known in Costa Rica
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Picture 5- Millipede
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Picture 6-Hike in the Santa Elena National Park.
Picture 7- Small Type Tucan in the tree
Picture 8- Tanya's B-day
Picture 9- Jason with "the Bos" on Tanya's B-day
Picture 10- Tarantula found during night hike.
The next morning was slow and we caught a bus to the ferry that took us across Lake Arenal. The boat cuts your travel time in half compared to driving the beaten up roads to Santa Elena and the cloud forests of Monte Verde. Santa Elena is a very small town consisting of three roads that make up a triangle. We quickly found a cheap hotel and ventured out for some food. Jason surprised us by running to the grocery store for some girly drinks of guaro (sugar cane vodka), Fresca and fresh cut pineapple spears... delicious. With so many attractions in Santa Elena we could not decide on what to do first. So we ended up skipping the Orchid Farm, Butterfly Gardens, Snake Exhibit and Bug Museum, as we sat on the hostel lawn drinking our cocktails. That night we decided to a night jungle tour. We were lucky and were able to spot sloths, a green side striped viper, two tarantulas, a leaf cutter ant colony, coatis (which one fell out of the tree right in front of our eyes), and several sleeping birds. Since it was Tanya’s birthday we decided we had to get our swirl on. We started the evening with a drinking game. We were joined by a young dutch guy who named himself the boss. He was a hoot and the game was full of extreme laughs before we hit the floor hard for some dancing at the only bar in town which was full of Ticos and Gringos alike... despite the energy from the day before I think we were all spent as we left the bar around midnight.
The next day we slept in to catch up on some much needed sleep and headed for Santa Elena Natural Reserve for a 9 kilometres of hiking through the cloud forests always looking up and around for birds or animals. Our quest was to find the elusive scarlet macaw or tucan... a quest that we did not succeed in...however the hike was awesome as we passed through many different types of forest, with trees covered in moss, natural tarzan vines, and constant mist. It was a good time to just take a nice walk through the quite forest. We were all excited that evening to see the Frog Exhibit which consisted of large plexi-glass enclosures that had one or two species of frogs or toads in them. We must have spent 2 hours looking and taking pictures of the amphibians. Some were poisonous, some had crazy colours, and others were tiny tiny.... very neat.
Picture 8- Tanya's B-day
Picture 9- Jason with "the Bos" on Tanya's B-day
Picture 10- Tarantula found during night hike.
The next morning was slow and we caught a bus to the ferry that took us across Lake Arenal. The boat cuts your travel time in half compared to driving the beaten up roads to Santa Elena and the cloud forests of Monte Verde. Santa Elena is a very small town consisting of three roads that make up a triangle. We quickly found a cheap hotel and ventured out for some food. Jason surprised us by running to the grocery store for some girly drinks of guaro (sugar cane vodka), Fresca and fresh cut pineapple spears... delicious. With so many attractions in Santa Elena we could not decide on what to do first. So we ended up skipping the Orchid Farm, Butterfly Gardens, Snake Exhibit and Bug Museum, as we sat on the hostel lawn drinking our cocktails. That night we decided to a night jungle tour. We were lucky and were able to spot sloths, a green side striped viper, two tarantulas, a leaf cutter ant colony, coatis (which one fell out of the tree right in front of our eyes), and several sleeping birds. Since it was Tanya’s birthday we decided we had to get our swirl on. We started the evening with a drinking game. We were joined by a young dutch guy who named himself the boss. He was a hoot and the game was full of extreme laughs before we hit the floor hard for some dancing at the only bar in town which was full of Ticos and Gringos alike... despite the energy from the day before I think we were all spent as we left the bar around midnight.
The next day we slept in to catch up on some much needed sleep and headed for Santa Elena Natural Reserve for a 9 kilometres of hiking through the cloud forests always looking up and around for birds or animals. Our quest was to find the elusive scarlet macaw or tucan... a quest that we did not succeed in...however the hike was awesome as we passed through many different types of forest, with trees covered in moss, natural tarzan vines, and constant mist. It was a good time to just take a nice walk through the quite forest. We were all excited that evening to see the Frog Exhibit which consisted of large plexi-glass enclosures that had one or two species of frogs or toads in them. We must have spent 2 hours looking and taking pictures of the amphibians. Some were poisonous, some had crazy colours, and others were tiny tiny.... very neat.
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