We visited Costa Rica for ten days at the beginning of the year, and had a wonderful time. Our big challenge was to keep things easy enough for Citrus, but not stay too long in one place that we’d get cabin fever. In the end, we spent half the time at Playa Grande on the west coast and several days at a small jungle lodge near the Corcovado rain forest on the Osa peninsula. A few photos are posted HERE.
I’d been to Costa Rica twice before in the early 1990s and it was amazing how much had changed. We did not need to exchange currency and everything was priced in Dollars. Playa Grande, a place I hitchhiked to in 1993 to see the leatherback turtles lay their eggs, now had a paved road and about 100 or more lots for sale by Century 21 only a block or so from the beach. This is very unfortunate because the turtles will not come ashore if there are lights, and the number of visiting turtles has already dropped from about 1,000 per year in the early ’90s to about 52 per year.
Citrus had a wonderful time, though she mainly recounts all of the perils. “I saw BIG scary spider!” “I went in boat. Big wave GOT ME!” She was really looking forward to seeing monkeys and soon after we walked into the rain forest, a monkey appeared high in the treetops. Unintentionally, a stick was knocked down. And bounced off her forehead. For weeks after we heard “Monkey dropped stick on my head! I don’t like that. That was a naughty monkey!”
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I have been wanting to go to Costa Rica for a long time. I hear the birding is terrific there. You may need to take your daughter back in several years when she can appreciate the trip more. Good for you, though, starting her early on traveling.