Today was a GREAT day . .. because we got to get outside in the rainforest!! Woohoo! This is what I have been waiting for! Well, not exactly this, but it beats lectures!
We left San Jose early this morning and headed to Guayabo National Park. This was an interesting drive as we watched the terrain change from BIG city to tropical and very mountainous with narrow VERY windy (long i) roads. Costa Rica (and Panama, I think) was the last isthmus of land to come up from the ocean as result of tectonic plate collisions. Thus Costa Rica has mountainous volcanic ranges (many of which are active!), some of which are over 3000 meters (think 10,000 feet) high!!
We left San Jose early this morning and headed to Guayabo National Park. This was an interesting drive as we watched the terrain change from BIG city to tropical and very mountainous with narrow VERY windy (long i) roads. Costa Rica (and Panama, I think) was the last isthmus of land to come up from the ocean as result of tectonic plate collisions. Thus Costa Rica has mountainous volcanic ranges (many of which are active!), some of which are over 3000 meters (think 10,000 feet) high!!
On the way, we stopped at a restaurant on the side of the mountain with an INCREDIBLE view!!! We also saw workers in fields on the sides of the mountain that I don’t know how they could work at that angle! Crazy! Also, the house right above the restaurant had an amazing yard with various brightly colored flowers! It was beautiful! The flowers here are SO bright and vivid! Then we went on to Guayabo.
Guayabo is a historical park about a “lost group” of native people who were actually believed to have disappeared before the arrival of the Spaniards. As I understand it, it is believed that their houses are the only “original” housing style in Costa Rica---all of the others are copies from other areas of the world—which consisted of cone shaped buildings. They also had a very sophisticated aqueduct system and wide stone roads in there area. Although this still is not exactly what I am waiting for, we got to walk around with a super guide and learn about this civilization, as well as learn a few things about the rainforest.
Guayabo is a historical park about a “lost group” of native people who were actually believed to have disappeared before the arrival of the Spaniards. As I understand it, it is believed that their houses are the only “original” housing style in Costa Rica---all of the others are copies from other areas of the world—which consisted of cone shaped buildings. They also had a very sophisticated aqueduct system and wide stone roads in there area. Although this still is not exactly what I am waiting for, we got to walk around with a super guide and learn about this civilization, as well as learn a few things about the rainforest.
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