Today is a day of rest. We did get to go to town and explore. Most of the stores in town was closed, but we made the best of it. A taste of San Vito on foot. 😁
Today was another day of completing our poster. We have done a lot work to get our information on our poster, finalize what we have and also get a glimpse of how it will look on the big screen. It was so relieving to get it all finished. There was a night hike. Kim and I was a little late for. We went trekking off into the forest looking for the groups. We seen an owl fly in front of us and land at eye level. We both were a little startled, an owl in our culture brings a message... soon after that we seen the group and their lights. We hide and scared them a bit, making noises. The Ngobli guode Celistino seen kim and tried to scare us back. We all had a good laugh. Tomorrow is presentations! So we went back to get some rest. To be continued...
Today we got up in the morning to prepare for a very long bus drive. Up at 5:30, breakfast at 6:00 and we left by 7:30. Big Blue Bus with an even crazier driver. It took us a long time to get out of the crazy city. But eventually we made it to the country where we started to see the landscape. We seen sugar cane fields, pineapple fields, coffee fields. These things were all new to me, as you could imagine. You could see how the land was cleared for these mono-culture fields and the negative effects to the land as we drove. Our first stop was a bathroom break and the store was a candy snack shack with a restaurant. Come to find out these are very common along the Pan American Highway. The Pan-American Highway stretches across the Americas, and we was on it in Costa Rica. Our next destination was Mount Chirripó. The tallest mountain in Costa Rica, at 12,228 ft. A very rare habitat. As we climbed the mountain we could clearly see the habitat changing. The Trees were beginning to shri...
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