Manuel Antonio National Park

One day we went to Manuel Antonio National Park. With the advice from another teacher, we hired a guide to walk us through the park. It was great advice, a little pricey, but otherwise we probably wouldn't have seen any of the animals that he pointed out to us. It was 20 dollars a person, but this guy brought his own telescope and knew how to spot all the animals!! It was a fun day and we also got to spend a little time at the beach as well.

The map of the park!

This was our first animal spotting.....this little blue beetle (I think! ha ha)

Our entire tour was in Spanish, which was fun. I think we understood most of it between the three of us! Our guide, Rodrigo, told us that this plant is where citronella comes from. Since Stephanie always seems to get the brunt of the bites no matter where we are, she tried to put this natural remedy to good use!

Rodrigo, our guide, finding something cool for us to look at!

We saw these cute colorful blue and red crabs!!!

Some howler monkeys!

This plant is related to the coffee bean.

This was a huge bamboo plant that we thought was pretty for a picture!

The beautiful beach that we discovered close to the end of our walk through the park! It had a lot of different places where you could park and it wasn't crowded at all! So nice!

The beach!

One of the sloths that we saw.....in Spanish their name is "El Perizoso" which literally translates to "The Lazy." ha ha. These were three toed sloths. We learned there are also five toed sloths!

I was leaning down taking a picture of something and this iguana ran out from where it was hiding and I jumped up and screamed and ran away. I thought this iguana was going to bite my butt or something!!!! I am not a big animal lover! ha ha. For this reason exactly!