An ATV Adventure Among Costa Rican Cows, Macaws, Monkeys, & Sloths
Opening a wooden and wire gate, our tour guide announced, “Welcome to Jurassic Park!” The terrain was earthy—lots of dirt, some mud, bumps, and trudging through water. I later learned that it was all one family’s farm! We passed some Costa Rican cows, which had long horns like in Texas, but they looked different. We paused to get a good look, and the tour company’s photographer snapped some photos of us.
Then we turned onto a shaded path that wound through the jungle mountains. Up and down and around we went, sometimes fast, sometimes carefully down steep slopes. At one point, we came into a pasture of cows that ran out of our way as we passed, mooing adorably! That was my favorite scenery. The path wound in all directions through it and then up along the side of a cliff overlooking it. We stopped for a couple pictures.
Shortly after, our tour guide stopped us suddenly to show us a wild white-faced capuchin monkey! He bounced happily from tree branch to tree branch, his long black tail swinging behind him gracefully. A little while later, we stopped again to see a pair of scarlet macaws. Their tails were so long and bright red! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a good picture. The flew away gracefully over the vast mountain-scape as my guide told me that macaws stay with their mates for life.
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