This is just a short outline of what you will find here in the Trip Log. If you just want to look at pictures - they have captions but not much explanation - you can go here and find hundreds of them!
I've divided the Trip Log 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 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.
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