Costa Rica Photos

BJ and I got home last night from our ten day trip to Costa Rica with Caravan Tours. We had an awesome time! We spent the trip traveling all over Costa Rica, getting a chance to see a wide range of landscapes (ocean, hills, volcanoes, mountains, rain forests) and animals (monkeys, sloths, huge spiders, poisen dart frogs, scarlet macaws, toucans, coati).

One of our favorite places was Tortuguero (which you can only fly or take a boat to get to), where we stayed in open air cabins in the jungle and were awakened each morning by howler monkeys. This is not one of our videos... but this does give a great idea of what it sounded like in the early morning there. We were able to see a lot of monkeys each day just by walking outside.



Here are some of the white faced monkeys...



Also in Tortuguero (and in Jaco) we were able to see sea turtles come in from the ocean to lay their eggs. We have a video of it from Jaco that we might post later.

In Fortuna we stayed in this hotel with an incredible view of the Arenal Volcano, which is still active.



We could see plumes of ash and smoke coming from the top. At night we took a tour of the volcano to see the hot lava and rocks flowing. It looked like an amazing fireworks show... but the real thing!



There's so much more to share but I don't want to just type on and on. We would definitely recommend this tour if anyone is considering a trip to Costa Rica!!