2018 Costa Rica Indigenous Research Experience

12/11/18 Today, we woke up early and had breakfast around 630. The rice and beans aren’t too bad. The juice is amazing. I think it was star fruit? The eggs are pretty good too even though there more.. orange than I am used to. Lol but free breakfast we went back to our rooms and waited a bit then met with Rodo where he took us on a little tour of the botanical garden. It’s the second largest in the world! That’s amazing. A lot of the plants and trees here aren’t native though. But they still look beautiful! We also seen some pineapples that were growing and also bananas! The bananas were just little guys. Maybe about 2 inches. They weren’t ripe yet though. Also seen the oldest tree in this area which is bout 125-150 years old. After our tour with Rodo, we took a mini coffee break then Scott took us to check out the forest. Man oh man is it beautiful. I seen a big beautiful butterfly. I thought it was blue but somebody said it was purple but who knows, it was so fast. We also seen...

Today we started our journey to the Los Cruces Biological Station here in Costa Rica. We left a little after seven as planned. The drive through the city took a long time but it was nice seeing the city. The drivers are a bit crazy. The drive was long! But it was beautiful. Once we started up the mountain, it was amazing. We were surrounded by green everywhere. The drivers were still bit crazy. Do they have traffic laws here? Lol but it was a long, road with turns every little while. We stopped at Paramo or something like that and hiked it a bit. It was beautiful. Steep, but beautiful. We seen a couple horses up there, ate some berries (I’m alive, so no poison), and ventured around for a half hour or so. We got back up on the bus and ate lunch at Georgina’s? It was soooo nice there! I tried tongue for the first time and it was pretty good. I also had some drink that was made with Star fruit which was also good. Outside of the place we at lunch, were lots of beautiful flowers. I took pi...