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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Bothriechis schlegelii - Eyelash Palm Pit Viper
When we stayed for two nights at the Almonds and Corals Hotel near Puerto Viejo, I spent several hours on a short loop trail on the hotel grounds. I spotted this Pit Viper in a tree as I was heading back on one of those hikes and spent some time trying to photograph it from different angles. It had clearly eaten something not very long ago and it wasn't interested in going anyway but it was also fairly well hidden in the tree.
