These are photos of our trip - they have captions but not much explanation. They are divided into 3 sections as explained below. If you are looking for the Trip Log - the details of what we did, where we stayed, what we saw, you can go here. The Trip Log is illustrated but there are hundreds more pictures that are here.
I've divided the trip into 3 sections, linked below. We flew into San Jose the night of January 16 and spent a couple of days exploring the town on our own. Then we joined a Road Scholar tour for about 10 days. Part 1 includes San Jose and several days in the cloud forest area around Sarapiqui. Part 2 begins when we arrive in the Arenal Volcano rainforest and continues through time spent on the central Pacific coast, around the Tarcoles River and the Carara National Park to the end of the Road Scholar portion, January 27. Part 3 then covers the 2 weeks (Jan 28 - Feb 11) we were joined by other family members in a rented condo in Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste, the northwest corner of the country.