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sized blue morphos and you're lucky if you don't go jungle blind and
get lost. Here you'll find fast flowing cataracts, fruit throwing howler
monkeys, big bullet ants, jumping spiders, sounds of mammals
chrashing through the undergrowth. Everything has a price - getting
here is quite a pain in the butt - and this is not in the figurative sense
 
The torrential rain in Rara Avis seems extremely heavy. It had
rained continuously for three days as I prepared to leave, some-
times the bursts had resulted in close to 10 centimeters. The
ground was not just saturated but more like a viscous orange
liquid. Thinking about the trip worried me - 800 altitude meters
down the Caribbean slopes sitting in a heavy tractor mashing it's
way inside a 1½ meter deep orange mud tube winding through
the jungle.
And it was frightening, rocking from the left wall to the right tearing
huge portions of mud from the walls into our laps. Finally! Hours later we
reached the paved road of the lowlands and after being seriously redirected
by landslides, after fixing two flat tyres, having the car sucked off the jack
by wind gusts from passing trucks and after queuing where the storm had
put huge trees in our way, we finally reached after dark unsafe San Jose.
Alone in the jungle. Sit down and wait for the animals to show up.
The forest above you... and around you as described by W. H. Hudson
in his book Green Mansions: "How far above me seemed that leafy
cloud land into which I gazed... Here nature is unapproachable with
her green airy canopy, a sun-impregnated cloud - cloud above cloud -
and though the highest may be unreachable by the eye the beams yet
filter through illumining the wide spaces beneath - chamber succeeded
by chamber each with it's own lights and shadows."
  
The weather in Costa Rica - right now!:
Contact: sunewendelboe@hotmail.com
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