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Evening meals were more international, though rice and beans is universal.Īll of it was impeccable – these guys know how to cook. My porridge back home just didn’t compare. With freshly cut guava, pineapple and melon on the side, it was a treat to have such beautiful in-season tropical fruit. This time a simple omelette for breakfast with fresh passion fruit juice and the wildlife for company.

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The food here was top-notch, as indeed it was everywhere I went. You could have left me at that spot for the rest of the week. I love our British birds, but they were seriously outclassed by toucans of every shape and size and beautifully named birds like the blue-grey and scarlet-rumped tanagers and shining honeycreepers. It’s a beacon of eco-tourism, too, with 500 acres of protected rainforest.īreakfast was memorable, watching strategically placed bird feeders mobbed by winged wonders of every hue. Then there are prehistoric lizards, happily sunning themselves in full view, including iguanas and the basilisk “Jesus Christ” lizard, which can walk on water.Įnjoy the surrounding rainforest (Image: Lesley Mann) You see two- and three-toed versions by the side of the road. The wildlife is the best thing about Costa Rica, which specialises in the cute and the quirky and definitely not the humdrum.Īt every turn you see jewel-like hummingbirds, extravagant macaws, dapper toucans and, of course, the sensational sloths, surely now challenging the giant panda as the world’s favourite animal. READ MORE: Europe's cheap Lake Como alternative with heaps of glamour and stays from £7 a nightĪll you need is a little patience (and perhaps decent binoculars). Howlers gotta howl!īut it is thrilling, especially when you catch a glimpse of them in the ceiba trees. It’s not the sweetest of music, to be honest. Sometimes you don’t mind the noisy neighbours giving you an early morning wake-up call – not when you are in Costa Rica and that racket is the howler monkeys in the rainforest just outside your window.

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