Rainbow Valley Lodge
Travel Blogs from Santa Elena
The Cloud Forests of Monteverde and Santa Elena
He Said: Highlights: 1. The Original Canopy Tour 2. The whole Santa Elena/Monteverde experience 3. Mariposa Butterfly Farm 4. The amazing choice of food and accommodations 5. The Cloud Forest 6. Time standing still for us 7. The Roads Lowlights: 1. Accidentally deleting all my pics from the Cloud Forest and the butterfly farm 2. The Roads 3. …
Living it up in the clouds
I'm rather behind on these updates by now - guess proper update will wait untili get home. Anyway, to pick up where I left off, I did some white water rafting the other day in arenal. It was so much fun! It wasn't too hard and the guides were great. I went with s fun group of people too - might even get some pictures to share.... Since my food just …
Chillin'
... the elusive quetzal, and other little birds. We enjoyed a stop at a hummingbird feeding station and everyone learning how to use the continuous shooting mode on the cameras!
Oh and we can't forgdt Tony trying to get a picture of a blue morphusthe damned things won't ...
Costa Rican Coffee
... it smelt so good. After seeing the bitter chocolate, he made a hot chocolate looking substance and it tasted pretty good. Then he gave us chocolate covered bananas and chunks of milk and white chocolate. I think this part was my favorite part of the tour. After chocolate, our guide showed us their big roaster and all the different types of roasts there are; I never knew there were so many! Right outside the roasting room, ...
Canyoning!
... to a little ladder and our guide showed us the basics of rappelling. I was a little nervous because I have only been rappelling once and it was down a fairly short wood wall. But they ensured us that they will have an emergency line at all times in case we slipped or needed help. We took a little hike down into the mountains and hit a stream and started walking in the stream. Then it was time for our first waterfall, there were six waterfalls in total. Kim was the ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking
- Kitchenette