Parque Nacional Tapantí

Today we decided to visit the National park of Tapantí. It's a park near San José in the region with the highest probability of rain in this country. So we equipped ourselves with umbrellas and rain coats and off we went. We knew before that there is no bus that goes right to the park entrance. The bus driver told us we had to walk the last 4 km.... but after about 3 km we reached a little town where they told us that the entrance is still 4 km away! Anyway finally we reached the park and it was really nice. We even had luck and the rain stopped for a while.

No worries the snake was dead...

These are nests of birds. The male birds spend about four weeks building these homes and then the female birds come and decide if they like it or not. If they don't like it the males have to build a new house ;-)

After we had walked through the whole park (another 7 km) we were not very keen to walk back the felt thousand kilometers to the nearest bus stop... and we were very lucky! One of the park guides had pity on this group of soaked exchanges students and asked he boss if he could leave early today. Because he lived in San José he drove us all the way home in his car. He was our hero that day!