Fun in the forest
So after taking the Jeep-Boat-Jeep dealy we ended up in Santa Elena – a town near Monteverde, the Cloud Forest. It was significantly cooler here than in La Fortuna – we ended up staying at this place called Casa Tranquilo – run by a cute couple and their new bouncing baby boy. Free internet and breakfast and clean – what more can you ask for – they had previously tried to run an internet cafe but the competition drove them out of that and they found out after a few renovations that it’s easier and less of a hassle to run a hostel…
On the road to Monteverde #1,
originally uploaded by cirrusjohn.
Anyway, the 1st day we walked to the Butterfly Farm – okay, not intentionally, but we got lost going to the Children’s Eternal Rainforest – so we ended up going there and it was really cool – John was in hog heaven, well, I guess butterfly heaven – I was seriously just going to leave him there for a couple of hours and come back because he could have stayed there for hours and hours. We met this Australian volunteer there who was bopping around from volunteer position to volunteer position – the last one was kind of cool as she was introducing monkeys back into the wild – not sure if I could work at the butterfly place though since they have to touch these gnarly insects too – hmmm, nope don’t think so…
So we finally made it to the Reserva Forestal Bosque Eterno de Los Ninos after some better directions – kind of cool because they’re trying to become one of those World Heritage sites – saw nothing but it was fun walking around –
The 2nd day we went to Reserva de Santa Elena – it was super windy so we saw nothing until we came upon these other 2 people that were looking up at the sky – John kept walking – he thought they were looking at birds or something but I stopped and the man pointed out the things they were looking at – they were coatis and I thought they looked like anteaters that were wandering about the trees …we were pretty bummed because that was all we saw until we got into the bus to take us back to town and the driver said did we see sloth – of course we hadn’t so we stopped next to this guy’s backyard and there was this thing that looked like a bunch of moss in this tree – apparently these monkey things don’t move much – some of them even grow moss on them since they just hang out a lot – what a trip – and par for the course that we don’t actually see much of anything in the forest but outside of the forest.
Coati #3,
originally uploaded by cirrusjohn.
For some reason we were so done with this town – it was nice but we were done with wildlife for a while so we made a reservation for the zip lines that afternoon and decided to head to the beach tomorrow – Tamarindo – oh my gosh – a great combination of utter terror and fun – I was absolutely terrified for the first couple of lines but then it got more fun – John was like this is just cool – no adrenaline rush at all for him – whatever – just because he’s not afraid of heights…
But it was totally cool because we went with all these senior citizens and they were totally going after it – hopefully we’ll be doing that at 70!
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