Costa Rica

My wife and I first visited Costa Rica in 2006. We spent the first week at Casa Corcovado Jungle Lodge near Corcovado National Park. The second week we traveled around without any plans or reservations, except for the last two nights. We read that driving in Costa Rica is risky - but we had fun. Of course, we got lost once too and ended up spending the night someplace we hadn't intended. We returned in 2011 and went to the Caribbean side and stayed in Cahuita for almost the entire trip. It was quite different from our first visit.

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Sloth - Bradypus variegates

When we returned to Costa Rica in 2011, we stayed primarily in Cahuita. The Sloth Sanctuary was only a short drive north. There were plenty of opportunities to take photographs of young sloths. Some were quite shy but there were some very young sloths quite curious. They had been brought to the sanctuary only recently and had little exposure to humans. If I recall correctly, they were brought to the sanctuary because their mother was found dead after accidentally electrocuting herself on a power line. But we heard other stories and reasons the sanctuary received sloths - as well as some common misconceptions about the species (Such as - they are not so "lazy" as you might think. We saw one moving pretty quickly up a tree once).

costa rica 2011

Richard Vanderlippe - Photography

Costa Rica