Susan Elizabeth Phillips

TRAVELING IN COSTA RICA

Hola! Lydia and I took another “Sisters Only” trip in March, this time a walking/hiking vacation in Costa Rica. (We traveled with Country Walkers.) As with our other trips, we had to keep pinching ourselves to make sure it was really us walking on suspension bridges above the forest canopy, hiking through the rain forest, seeing lava tumbling down the side of the Arenal Volcano, observing howler monkeys and scarlet macaws in the wild, and thrilling to the famous Costa Rica zip lines. (I loved the zip lines, but the “Tarzan Swing” was another experience entirely. See below for my reaction!)
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A street fair in San Jose							Arenal Volcano early morning

Lydia and me at the top of lava trail							An “ozilla,” a wild, semi-domesticated cat we met

Lydia lookin’ good on the trail							Walking to lunch at a country restaurant

Tiny hummingbird nest on a suspension bridge							Our fabulous Country Walker guides, Jimmy and Onik

Photo taken through window of our moving van							At a coffee plantation with some of our fellow travelers

View of the Pacific from our beautiful hotel							One of the tasty meals cooked for us by local women

Me—happy on the zip lines

Me—terrified on the Tarzan Swing!