Central America 4 - Costa Rica

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Our final travels in Central America were around the beautiful natural beauty of Costa Rica. It also turned out to be a bit of an adrenaline-pumping section of our trip.

Highlights have included:

- white-water rafting down 45 rapids on the Class 4 Rio Torro ("Bull River'); with our raft setting a new record of capsizing once and losing someone overboard on another 2 occasions! Nothing like being stuck under a capisized raft for a while, bouncing off the rocks below - we had the brusies afterwards to prove it!!

- Watching the red hot lava flow out of the Arenal volcano at night. (Luckily we were at a distance away though!)

- flying through the tree canopy of cloud forest at Monteverde, on a series off 11 zip lines. One way to travel around the forest!!

- relaxing on the gorgeous beaches at Manuel Antonio National Park, with great views and huge waves from the Pacifc Ocean charging in.

A fab end to Central America - now New Zealand here we come...!!!

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Photos

Rio Torro, near La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Not sure why Helen is not paddling hard like everyone else!!

Monteverde Cloud Forest
The deep vegetation in the cloud forest

Zip line at Monteverde
Chris about to fly into the tree canopy of the forest!!!

Sunset at Manuel Antonio
Sunset from the public beach at Manuel Antonio

Manuel Antonio
One of the beaches inside the National Park at Manuel Antonio