Costa Rica day 4

I explored the topiaries today. I got a lot of pictures hoping to send them to my old horticulture professor who particularly likes them.

Topiaries at the hotel. TRex

Spider

London Bridges

Bird in a tree?

Breakfast at the hotel , then a hike up an active volcano. The hike was nice, if hot and without much canopy.

Our Trail

The volcano in the distance.

 The top was very neat. Rocks were falling down the slops of the the volcano and lava was pushed out. We sat at the top of the trail and got a lecture on Costa Rican's energy consumption practices. Then we were encouraged to hike back down and explore the nature. We found a whole bunch of bizarre sounding birds, a clan of monkeys,  a viper, scorpions, and a Tarzan swing.

We realized half way through the hike back that we were gonna be late. We double timed it through the rest of the half and still people were 40 minutes later than is. The we took a water taxi across the lake and then drove to the Monteverde residence. The drive was long and Scary, but very cool to watch. Then we had dinner at the hotel and it was a pretty quiet night over all.