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Final Post From Costa Rica....Summing Up Life Here

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SOME OF OUR FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE FABULOUS COUNTRY OF COSTA RICA: Many people use public transport in Costa Rica. People of all ages take the bus for work and pleasure. So the streets are very safe and always filled with people going about their daily activities. The ironic thing is, while they live a free life, every house, grocery store, or any establishment has bars and fencing with razor wire. The two ways of living just don't fit together in our minds. The above two pics show an array of fencing types in a typical Costa Rican neighborhood.  Crazy amount of security in our opinions. It seemed like everyone owned a bike.  No worries regarding theft in most areas. Entire families hop on single scooters to go about their daily lives. The roads were very narrow meaning you had to be very careful when a vehicle coming the other way approaches you.  Especially when it is a large vehicle and there are also cars parked on the roadway! Many folks had carts designed to be dragg...
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A Fabulous Park With Swinging Bridges Hundreds of Feet Above the Ground!

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 Crazy stuff the roads here in Costa Rica are!  We took an hour long drive up a 10 mile road to find a park that locals said we must see while near Manuel Antonio.  Not only are the roads the steepest we have ever seen, they are in really poor shape with lots of ruts and potholes.  What we found at the end of the road was well worth the wear and tear we put on our rental car! The initial 5 miles of the road was driven along a dirt road that was cut straight through the palm oil plantations around here.  There were workers with machetes every 100 yards or so.  Not exactly sure what they were doing but they all commuted to work there on their scooter-like motorcycles.  There were also small housing developments placed here and there along the road.  Maybe to house some of the workers? Came upon our first of 3 swinging bridges.  The sign said it was about 450 feet long and 135 feet above the river below.  Notice the width of the tread is on...
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Manuel Antonio National Park and a Nice Kayak Through the Mangroves There

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  At Christmas time we were not able to get into the world famous Manuel Antonio National Park due to capacity constraints and it being the holiday season.  We opted to return back to the Pacific Coast before heading out of the country back to snowy New York. As with many parks in Costa Rica our bags were searched for 'contraband' food items as carrying any type of food into the park will attract the wildlife and make for uncomfortable encounters with them.  We had already experienced that at Cahuita National Park with the monkeys! The park not only had some really nice hiking paths but many pristine beaches for folks to lounge at and go swimming in the warm waters of the Pacific. The three mile, very hilly, trail around Punta Cathedral Peninsula was always a stone's throw away from the ocean.  How gorgeous! There were many outcroppings of rock that the waves constantly crashed into.  As we were there a bit late in the day, we had the place all to ourselves. Alo...
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