1/12: travel to La Fortuna

We left Selina and headed to our airbnb rental to La Fortuna.

We rented a car from a company that delivered the car and will pick it up. Apparently they don't have an office which I guess keeps the costs down.

It was about 2.5 hours along winding, two-lane roads with no shoulders. Annie drove while Honora and Lara navigated. It was nice to be a dependent.


The the roads were very hilly and twisty, which kept our speed down. There were also unmarked speed bumps!

Once we left town, the scenery was alternately spectacular like this
 

and at other times misty where you couldn't see in front of you.

We passed a number of signs for a vegan restaurant so I asked for a stop for a vegan shake. It was a Jewish resort with a huge main building where their restaurant was located. The shake was good but they took forever. Life moves slow in Costa Rica.

I found this little suspension bridge on the property the leads to an orchid garden. It was not very high but it was definitely not for the faint of heart.


Here is our airbnb in La Fortuna.


It's all pretty new.




Love the faux stone.


The three girls are taking this room.


They gave me this room. I feel like a princess.


And this is why it is River Paradiase.



There are at least three buildings on the property that she rents. Clearly business is good because she's building another one.


The one thing that Honora wanted to do was to see some sloths. We went to a place that specialized in sloth-viewing tour as our afternoon activity. (Sloth's Territory, https://www.facebook.com/Sloths.Territory.2018) 


A young guide took us on a 90-minute walk on his family's property and it would have been impossible to see anything without him.




I brought a 35-mm DSLR with a 200mm zoom and the pictures still weren't as good as these. These were taken by my phone looking through his telescope.

One of the first things I saw on the walk were these pink bananas. Apparently they are invasive and inedible but the birds like them so they disperse the seeds everywhere.


Here are some real bananas.


Apparently, the bunches outweigh the plants' ability to stand so they need to be propped up.


After the tour, the guide recommended a restaurant called "Soda" that served authentic Costa Rican food so we went and it was very good and pretty cheap.

Like all the places here, it was open air and when it rained, you could hear it pounding the corrugated tin roof.

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