Butterflies and scorpions
After La Fortuna we drove around Lake Arenal to Monteverde. I was suprised the road didnt rattle our little Isuzu to bits - we were quite exhausted after 2 hours of juddering over rubble.
We stopped along the way at a biological preserve and saw some of Costa Rica's beautiful butterflies and some very scary looking snakes.
The next night in Monteverde I had another close encounter with Costa Rican wildlife in our bathroom: a little scorpion had been sharing our room with us for 24 hours.
In Monteverde we had a guided tour of the cloud forest where we learned about monkeys and orchids and were lucky enough to see a pair of Quetzals. Of course, we also had to try the zipline canopy tour where you fly along a series of cables through the forest tree tops. I tried unsucessfully to video one of these rides 3 times and then managed this one on the last run (about a 2MB download, Windows Movie format).
We stopped along the way at a biological preserve and saw some of Costa Rica's beautiful butterflies and some very scary looking snakes.
The next night in Monteverde I had another close encounter with Costa Rican wildlife in our bathroom: a little scorpion had been sharing our room with us for 24 hours.
In Monteverde we had a guided tour of the cloud forest where we learned about monkeys and orchids and were lucky enough to see a pair of Quetzals. Of course, we also had to try the zipline canopy tour where you fly along a series of cables through the forest tree tops. I tried unsucessfully to video one of these rides 3 times and then managed this one on the last run (about a 2MB download, Windows Movie format).
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