Travel to Monteverde

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Once again it was time to move on, and we decided to take the "jeep-boat-jeep" option to get to Santa Elena. The trip across Lake Arenal in the boat was the most relaxing and pleasant part of the trip. It turned out (not too suprisingly) that this was actually a minivan-boat-minivan trip, and not quite as exciting as doing a 4x4 road trip, although the road to Santa Elena were among the roughest we had seen. When we got to Santa Elena we were caked in a layer of dust.

We had lunch in the very cool Tree House Cafe in Santa Elena, which is a cafe built around a large tree, with branches going right past tables. A very cool and innovative idea.

Trish took some timeout to relax while I headed out to see some of the attractions, including the Serpentario and the Ranario (Frog pond). Neither of these were particularly exciting... I guess I have grown tired of seeing animals in enclosures, as it is so much more interesting to see them in the wild.

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