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... og paa visse tidspunkter foeltes det som om man virkelig var tilbage i tiden, og en del af bibelshistorien. En mand spurtge mig hvor jeg var fra, og jeg svarede Danmark, saa kiggede han paa mig og grinede, og sagde: "aarh, saa er det klart du ser saa skraemt ud! I har vist ikke saadan noget?", og det var meget godt beskrevet. En dag kom jeg hjem om natten, og taxaen satte os af et stykke vaek fra vores hostel, fordi han ikke kunne komme forbi et optog, saa vi skulle selv kryde ...
Monkeys and Herrons and Crocs! Oh my!
This morning we met our tour at 8am and headed by bus to Palo Verde National Park. Our stops along the way were to Guaitil Village where the indigenous people of CR are still making their pottery using the original techniques passed down to them and then to Nicoya where we saw the oldest Cathedral in CR.
In Guaitil, we got to see a local family show us first hand how they hand sculpt the pottery they are so famous for, where the clay comes from, and what minerals ...
Bird Island smells bad
The past couple of days we have been working on our group projects for the most part. Today was the first day that we didn't have to hike up that huge cliff. We just analyzed all of the insect species that we were able to collect and determined whether or not what we observed was statistically significant (which it was, woohoo!).
Yesterday we went on a boat ride on the Tempisque River. We were able to see a lot of large crocodiles. We even saw a pregnant one! Our ...
I'm still alive, surprisingly ;)
... going to look at how the biodiversity of insects differs at different altitudes here at Palo Verde. We pick up leaf litter at different altitudes (30, 80 and 130 meters), then we look at how many different species of insects we find after sifting through all of the leaves and dirt.
A few nights ago we found a pregnant scorpion in our room. She had like 50 babies on her back and they all ran away when we tried to get the mom out of our room. We ended up putting ...
How to not get stung by a scorpion
... 8 of them or so and they got really close to us, so I was able to get some good pictures.
We have to sleep inside mosquito nets, which was a little unsettling at first. None of us got much sleep because we were scared that a scorpion would get into our beds and sting us. But I don't think that the scorpions are all that bad as long as you always check your boots before you put them on, and make sure ...
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