The Mistico Hanging Bridges were only about 30 min from our hotel. I loved this place! My favorite so far! We did end up getting pretty wet but we were in a rain forest and it was worth it ๐. We saw so much lush vegetation, trees full of bromeliads, spider monkeys, frogs, snake, lots of birds, bats, a wild hog, carimundi (probably not spelling that right). Beautiful, beautiful! We divided into 3 groups – not too much of a walk, medium, and hard. I went with the hard group, which wasn’t that hard, and it was a steep down to the waterfall and back up. I think that was the only difference. We walked for 2 hours. We went across 10 hard (like metal or stone) and 6 hanging bridges.
It started raining pretty hard after this and had to put the camera away.
Of course then it stopped raining and I got these last few shots. Such a beautiful area. When we were done our guide said it was like being in a hyperbaric chamber. 100% oxygen. Described it as the ‘lungs of the country’.
We the drove around Lake Arenal, the largest lake in Central America. It provides 60% of the hydroelectricity for the country. It was about a 2 hour drive to our lunch destination.
At the north end of the lake it is very windy and they harness wind power also. I know a lot of people don’t like the look of these wind machines, but I do.
Our chariot….
After lunch it was a 2.5 hour drive to out hotel. You could see the scenery drastically change from rainforest to ‘tropical dry forest’. Never heard of that term before.
The we arrive at the beautiful J W Marriot Resort Guanacaste.
Wow, Joy!!! Beautiful! You are seeing some beautiful scenery. You are seeing much more than what I saw when we went there. Keep enjoying! Canโt wait to hear about your trip when you return:)
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I love the scenery, vegetation and information – like, tropical dry forest. โค๏ธ
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