Costa Rica, part 2

Costa Rica: Puerto Viejo and Manuel Antonio.
It was in Pureto Viejo that we saw our first sloth!

There are a lot of 'travel days' in our travels. And in Costa Rica, in December, it's quite hot. Many times we are crammed into buses, panting and gleaning with sweat.

But many times during our travels include me finding some animal to love on, yay!

Costa Rica is notoriously beautiful and warm, dense with national parks and rain forests. Did I mention RAIN forests? Yup, we got rained on A LOT. Thankfully, the rain was generally also warm. Here we are, looking less wet than we felt when we took the picture.

On our way to Manuel Antonio we saw this place, Zarcero Tipiary Gardens

Manuel Antonio was our first time really experiencing the Tiki Monkeys.

They're super cute, and come in enormous groups. Here there are a few of them enjoying someone's breakfast at our hostel.

Big hill hike, turtle, monkeys, met Lauren (gay), titi monkey show, national park

The Hostel was good to me when it came to enjoying animals, like their resident kitty, Chica.

The walk from our hostel to the beach and the National Park was a steep walk down, and a long tiring walk back... thankfully there were a few cute animal breaks to recharge us, like with this lil' pooch...

and this cute lil' turtle.

Many of the hip restaurants, like this place where you dine out of an old plane (though we didn't eat there, we ate at a tiny family diner where the 9year-old son was our server... who we called Senor Frijoles),

used recycled bottles in cool and creative ways, like this wall.

 The National Park is a full day experience. It's vast, and you don't want to rush, and due to it's many long stretches of staircases, you really can't rush.

Here we are at the top viewpoint.

And at the bottom, on a small beach spot, admiring a lizard.

And on an internal trail, excited to see a coati (like a non-nocturnal racoon)!

And enjoying soaking up the sun over a long stretch of beach.

 The next day we were on our way to Nicaragua...