Guesthouse El Maranon
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Costa Rica- Cassandra Pereira- Class '13
... I headed out to the second part of my program, working with turtles. I took the bus up to the Nicoya Peninsula to our site called Cameronal Refugio. This was on the pacific coast close to a town called Samara. My daily schedule at the site was morning chores after breakfast, free time, lunch break, more free time and then afternoon work. ...
El Rio Pacuare!
... one person on our raft flew out of the boat and we had quite a time rescuing her! I'm glad it wasn't me! Unfortunately our time on the river was quickly coming to an end. We could tell because we suddenly saw a highway up ahead! There were many local people playing in the river. Some of them jumped onto our rafts and Yonder explained to us that they help haul the rafts up the hill and onto the trailers and then the guides give them the leftover food from our lunch! ...
BlahBlah Pura Vida! BlahBlahBlah Pura Vida!
... also take advantage of their movie collection and watch it in the tv room.
We settled in, used some internet, and then went out to a chinese place for lunch/dinner at Restaurant JoJo. We had a talkative and funny waiter though he must have said "Pura Vida!" after every 7 words.
Back at the hostel, we watched Cop Out and then went to bed.
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Some tiny superstars...and more monkeys!
... all the way up to the canopy. We were looking for a group of loud squawking parrots, and we finally found them when we reached the top. But the real surprise was that for some reason on this day, and only this day, we saw not one, but four (!) different kinds of poison dart and poison arrow frogs. They are so tiny, you cannot imagine (about the size of your toenail), but up close they look like ...
Snorkeling again!
... off trail to examine a tiny frog when I heard Joe exclaim behind me. I turned around and there hanging in the bright light of his headlamp was a giant spider, hanging on an invisible thread of silk. The spider sat motionless, until I backed out of my place, eye level with the creature. Then she scurried back up the line, disappearing in the branches high above us.
Stefan tried hard, but lacked knowledge of someone older who has been ...
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