Monday, February 9, 2009

Memories from Costa Rica

I wanted to share with you a great place to travel - the enchanted Costa Rica and the Manuel
Antonio Park.

We had the opportunity to visit about two years ago and felt we saw the “Garden of Eden”. Mainly the name “Garden of Eden” is due to the incredible selection of unusually interesting birds, butterflies, flowers and wild orchids along road side also a large variety of trees and animals seen nowhere on earth.

Costa Rica has more than More than 200 species of mammals, around 850 species of birds, almost 200 types of amphibians and 220 species of reptiles inhabit these lands.

We mostly stayed in the Manuel Antonio area. We pick this area because the proximity to the beach and the rain forest. We were glad we did.

The hotel La Mansion Inn was wonderful. The manager of the property communicated with me at least 4 rounds of emails, back and forth just to make sure that I’m well cared even before setting foot at the hotel. The hotel is small and intimate with gorgeous sunset and breathtaking ocean views,
We arrived in Jan Jose airport at 5PM and after clearing customs and going to arrival area I saw a man holding a sigh with my name on it. I immediately felt safe and at ease mainly because I didn’t have to worry about how to get to the hotel by my self -no rental car or buses will be needed, just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride.

We hopped on his comfortable and roomy SUV. The driver was extremely friendly, outgoing and took us quickly through the city. There we were off to the country ride to our hotel. The ride took around three & half hours and went into the country right across to the west through hills and vast valies

Manuel Antonio is in the Central Pacific side of Costa Rica in the middle of the rain forest and covered with jungle like tall trees with monkeys and sloths calling these trees home.


Right in front of the entrance to the hotel, the gardens have Birds of Paradise, Orchids and pretty butterflies.

We spent our days in this magnificent area admiring this vast nature and with each day we were there we noticed stress level is just melting away into these captivating forests.

Every day we walked to the beach through a trail inside the forest to experience nature, we also did Echo-friendly tour with a local company called: Titi Canopy Tour.

This is an adventure tour, a mile long traveling from platform to platform on suspended cables attached to a small, personal, high tech harness. What a way to see and feel the forest….

At night the topical plants emit this irresistible fragrance designed to attract specify insects. The most abundant flora in the rainforest is the ferns. The forest has numerous variety ferns, some reach several feet high. It’s interesting to see the height of the plants because they all need light to survive therefore they climb so high, some of giant size leaves – I just loved it all……


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