Hotel La Mariposa
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Welcome to the Monkey House (and the lizard beach)
Visit Klenske, Ink. We are staying at La Mariposa hotel (the butterfly), which is perched on a cliff overlooking the pacific ocean and manuel antonio national park. The hotel is gorgeous, mostly due to the scenery and the vistas. There´s a swimming pool and two swim up bars, and an open air restaurant, and our room has a nice porch where we can get …
Sloths, Monkeys & Bulls, Oh My!
... and hermit crabs crawling all over the rocks and beach. We also saw some crabs the size of our hands on the larger rocks by the water. Many photo ops for the photographer. Happy me! As we were scoping out the wildlife, we heard some people yelling and laughing. We look over and a monkey had come down from the tree and stole their grocery bag with chips, crackers, etc. Major photo op!
Before we got to the park, we were told that the monkeys are ...
Paradise and Naughty Raccoons
... baby, and later in the evening on our way to dinner we saw a sloth crawling along some power cables with a cute little whippersnapper! Wildlife is all around.
Our last excursion was a tour of the Damas Mangroves by kayak. We spotted a blue heron, tiger heron, jesus christ lizard (the ones that run on water), iguanas, big colourful crabs, fish and a massive splash from a crocodile (that made us keep our hands out of the water!) and stopped ...
Useful info
... pacific. There are maybe like 12 rooms or so but I can’t see any from where we are. We are down the stairs in room 10. I just got the regular room because it was cheap. I gotta say it’s hard for me because I booked the best hotels first and now I am in the decline. I also lost my stupid research list for the hotels and so I booked this by just googling. It was adults only and after Jym had some moments tolerating the screaming kids next to us ...
Animals galore...
... in the park. The beach was nice but the highlight was a troop of monkeys which were resident nearby who came onto the beach to steel the tourists possessions whilst they went swimming etc. This soon got everyones attention and soon there was 20 or so people taking pictures and screaming when they got too close. We hung around for a bit and Mike got some good pictures of the monkeys playing and swinging in ...