"The Many Faces of the Rain Forest " a Costa Rica Travel Page by grandmaR

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Drake's Bay

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In October of 1995, my husband suddenly said to me - we are going to Bermuda for Thanksgiving and the Virgin Islands for Christmas. I persuaded him that I didn't want to be away for Christmas. We did go to Bermuda and then in February of 1996 we went to Costa Rica to see the rain forest. We used a travel agent (Pat Hewitt of Costa Rica Travel Exchange) that I got a recommendation for from the internet, and he was terrific.
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All of the photographs are not on this page yet because I wasn't having digital pictures made at this time.

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Mountains from a small plane

From San Jose , we went to Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast , Drakes Bay on the Pacific coast on package trips, and drove to Arenal by way of Sarchi and Monteverde on our own. We saw several different varieties of rain forest including a lot of animals (monkeys, alligators, poison arrow frogs), birds and plants. And we spent less money on 13 days in Costa Rica than we did on 5 days on Bermuda.

[Of course it helped that we didn't pay for our air fare to Costa Rica because we flew on a buddy pass supplied by our daughter who is an airline pilot.]