Last week in Costa Rica

I am back to were I have internet connection! We are in Uruguay now, but I thought I would first catch you up on what we did the last week we were in Costa Rica. We spent 8 days traveling around Costa Rica visiting 2 of the most visited spots in the Country. Arenal Volcanoe and Manuel Antonio. We had such a great time. We started out leaving Nosara and driving to Arenal to see the volcanoe and lake. Then we drove down to Manuel Antonio which is in central Costa Rica. On our drive to Manuel Antonio we got to see some of the earthquake distruction. Large landsides that washed away entire hillsides. Once we got to Manuel Antonio we relaxed on the beach, went jet skiing, enjoyed monkeys from our hotel room. Then we drove from Manuel Antonio to San Jose where we stayed the night and caught a plane the next day to Uruguay.

Top picture is the view we had from our hotel room in Manuel Antonio.

2nd picture is the family with Arenal Valconoe in the background. It was mostly cloudy while we were there so we never got to see more than that! It is an active volacanoe and if you are a lucky visitor and get to see boulders and even lava flows. We were not one of them!

3rd picture is of a hike we did thru the jungle over 16 bridges, 6 of them were hanging bridges. It was a great way to see the jungle.

4th picture is a view of Lake Arenal from the dam.

5th picture is of Playa (beach) Ostional which is north of Nosara. It is a black sand beach that is protected because of the turtles that nest on that beach.