Princess wishing she could go to Costa Rica too
On the plane to Miami before leaving the country
Cute map of Costa Rica at Poas volcano park
Walk up to Hotel La Rosa de America
Hotel gardens
Swan towel
Hotel room patio
Rafael spots bananas
I get a pic with bananas too
Our shuttle bus for first day of tours
Coffee plantation tour
Award winning coffee
Watching the coffee beans dry
View of beans behind Rafael
Coffee bean soaker tubs
From soakers to sun
Rows of drying beans
Just about ready for roasting
Bagged up beans
Coffee flower perfume
Welcome to Poas volcano
Eruption instructions: stay calm
Poas main crater
Lake in second Poas crater
Main crater on way back down
Cloud forest
Traffic jam when the cows come home
Waterfalls garden path
Treetop grill for lunch
Inside treetop grill
Pina coladas
Tico turkey
Toucan
Toucan flying at my head
Toucan playing nice
Macaw mal de ojo
Agitated macaw
We’d just come back from visiting the SLO monarch grove before this trip
My what big butterfl’eyes’ you have
Napping spider monkey
White face monkey
Puma
Ocelot
Female cheetah
Male cheetah and human
Iris display
Red eye tree frog sleeping
Poison dart frogs
National symbol
Me & the ox
Coati: raccon cousin
Lots of steps
Makin’ it rain
Final waterfall pic
Mossy cliff face cubby
Sombrilla de pobre
Tarantula
Back to Alajuela
Flying to Tortuguero
Alajuela air strip
Local map
Water taxi ‘driver’
Along the river
Casa Marabella
Water heater (shower)
Frog towel
Monkey towel
Tortuga (turtle) towel
Church across from Marabella
Local outside Marabella
Carving tortugas from almond hulls
Tortugas for Romeo kids
Touring Tortugeuro
Tortuga tire
Parrot and Macaw tires
Souvenir shop stop
Coconut planters
Leftover heave machinery
No handrails no problem
Side of school
Another school wal
Seafood soup (Yum!)
Toad outside Casa Marabella
Troutugeuro National Park entrance
River tour in park
Lumber canals in park
Spider monkeys in the trees
Howler monkeys in the trees
Back heron
Blue (white) heron
River turtles
Nocturnal heron
Caiman babies
Slingin sloth
Modern amenities
Lumber machinery & playground
Coconut & seesaw
More recycled tires
Caribbean beachside
Rafael swimming
Leatherback turtle nests
Green vine snake
Sleeping sloth
Bat
Treetop lizard
Plane arrival
Tortugeuro runway
Front row seats
Tortuguero from the air
Roadtrupping to Arenal
Scary high bridge
Walkway attached to car bridge
First Arenal sighting… and, land for sale
View from our hotel
Looking up at where just were
Room entry
Bathroom
Main room
Flower arrangement
Elephant towel
View from our room
Room patio
Hammock time
Moth on the stairwell
Dining al fresco
Tiny frog
Not so tiny reptile
Toucan
Class I river tubing
And we rode horses through it too
Ziplinig
Flight terminal
Inside terminal
Plane arrival
Last Arenal photo opp
Countryside
Pacific coast
Villas Nicolas outside Manuel Antonio
Why’d the monkey cross the street?
Our room
Bathroom
Balcony
Bats
Howler monkey
Basilisk
Baby iguana
Sleeping sloth
Squirrel monkeys
Potoo
Googled Potoo
Banana leaf bat family
Pauraque
Slinking sloth
Manuel Antonio beach
Sleeping sloth
White face monkeys
Looking for people food
Wood ‘coal’ grills
Watching dinner prep
Final product
Squid (mussel stuffed) and Octopus (scallop stuffed)
Grass fed Fortuna beef
Ocean sunset
Counting bug bites
Iguana in Quepos
San Jose street life
Opposite side
Including smaller vendors
Airport ox cart
Ticketing mascot
Gate mascot
Overview of Tortuguero
Looks like an amazing trip!
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