Costa Rica: 2/14 - 2/18 (Santa Rosa)

Left Corcovado on the 14th, stopped at Dominical for lunch, a crazy little surf town. Met a couple from New York who moved down to Costa Rica, opened up a ice cream shop, had a kid, and are now living out their days making tasty food for happy people in heaven. Pretty awesome. Then we traveled to Hermosa and then stopped at Carara National Forest. This is a "moist" forest, not wet, not dry. A refreshing alternative to the mugginess of Corcovado. Saw some cool stuff.



Then we traveled to Liberia.



And stopped at our final destination in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa was much dryer than Corcovado so it felt much cooler (I didn't sweat constantly all day long). However, we didn't camp 5ft from the beach, which wasn't AS cool. We had class everyday (including weekends) from 8am to 6pm with some night lectures. So, yes mom, I am learning A LOT. I am in class probably about 50 hours a week (maybe more). Nonetheless, still had a lot of time to have fun and see some really amazing things.

This is my professor/director during one of our lectures. Think of this next time you are sitting in a stale classroom. Don't ever get to comfortable in a life you don't enjoy. There are alternative lives you can lead.


PURA!

VIDA!


Monkeys are everywhere.



Here's one of my TA's, Yimen, helping my group and I on our field experiment.


Then we had another hike day, like in Corcovado, to Playa Narana. This time it was a 13k (26k both ways) through a primary DRY forest. This was much different than the lowland forest and it was a longer hike, too. But we had an even more beautiful beach waiting for us at the end and a beautiful sunset to see on the way back. So it was SO worth it.
Here's a dried up river:

The white in this photo isn't sand, but salt. Wierd...




BEACH!







SUNSET!




More to come...