Around 2:30 am on Tuesday, August 12, I was woken by the noise of a tropical thunderstorm – the rain was hitting our roof, and the thunders rumbled like bombs. I watched the storm, which also woke Lilach and Daniel up at some point, until suddenly, within a minute, the rain stopped and everything was […]
Tag: travel
Corcovado (August 10-11)
On Sunday (August 10), we had the pleasure of seeing the macaws we missed at Carara on the trees right across our cabin’s yard. After a relaxing day, we took an afternoon drive to a nearby beach (the road to which was a rather challenging and steep 4×4 trail). We returned near sunset, wet and […]
From Monteverde to Manuel Antonio (August 3-4)
Sunday, August 3rd, was very rainy. In the morning, Lilach and I hiked in the cloud forest reserve. We started the trail in a light rain and ended it in a light rain, with a couple of hours of moderate to heavy rain in between. We didn’t dare take our binoculars or camera out of […]
Monteverde (August 2)
The morning was very rainy, and we stayed in the cabin, playing and sorting photos until noon, when we all headed out to the nearby Curi Cancha reserve for a two-hour walk. We heard some birds, but saw relatively few, and mostly enjoyed the forest. A cute Agouti – a large, tailless rodent – was […]
Rio Celeste (August 1)
We left La Fortuna early and set out for our next destination – Monteverde. On the way, we stopped at the Rio Celeste reserve, where two rivers meet and create an interesting hydrological phenomenon. At the rivers’ confluence, the water’s pH changes, causing crystalline mineral particles carried by one of the rivers to grow very […]
Birds, monkeys and another snake! (July 31)
We woke up early and went out to the balcony to the sound of birds. And indeed, there were quite a few in sight including several large black vultures. One of them shared a nearby tree with a Yellow-throated Toucan. Lilach, Daniel and I headed out before 7, for an early morning a swim in […]
Waterfall trip and our first snake (July 30)
In the early afternoon, we visited the beautiful La Fortuna waterfall, which has about 500 steps leading down to it, and even swam in the river’s water. Before starting the descent, we saw two toucans (of two different species – Keel-billed and Yellow-throated) and a nice Violet-headed hummingbird, but couldn’t get good photos of any […]
Butterflies and hanging bridges (July 29)
Leaving Tamar to sleep late as she wished, Lilach, Daniel and I left the apartment in the early morning to go to a nearby “butterfly dome”, where hundreds of beautiful butterflies hovered around and challenged us to take their pictures. In the gardens around the dome we saw, in addition to butterflies, some hummingbirds and […]
Family Trips 