We started the day with a bus, boat, bus ride from La Fortuna to Monte Verde. It was an interesting ride, since it took place on one of the worst roads I ever travelled. Luckily we had an ok minibus and arrived safely without any problems.
As soon as we arrived to Monte Verde we started to book the activities for the day. Two of us decided to do Costa Rica’s number one tourist attraction – the Zip line and the other two decided to go for horseback riding. (One person lay sick at the hotel.) Guess what I chose??? Well, when I’m given the choice of Zip-lining (which is high up in the air and I have a fear of heights) and horseback riding (I love horses) the choice was not that difficult. No chance in h… I’m paying a lot of money to be scared to death, when I can do something I actually enjoy. So I spent 2 hours on a horse and got soaking wet – AGAIN!!! But I enjoyed every minute of it.
After that we decided to go for night walk in a National Park to see some animals. We had fantastic luck. We saw sloth (very cute fury animal high up in trees), raccoon (another very cute fury animal high up in tress) and finally we say an armadillo. It is very unusual that you get to see all three animals in one night, especially the last one (armadillo). We felt so lucky. Unfortunately it is impossible to take pictures of these animals, mainly because they are so high up in the trees and it is dark. The armadillo appeared in pouring rain and that time I had put my camera away.
But we also saw plenty of insects and a tarantula and these you can see in the pictures below. They were easier to catch with the camera. Tomorrow morning we are going for another animal hike. Let’s see how that turns out. But I’m guessing it will rain. J
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