Costa Rica 2024: Road Trip - Costa Rica Style
Now, we're all ready for the 5-hour drive to the Manuel Antonia NP area. Our hotel is a stone's throw away from the park. Truth be told, I love long drives and I was waiting for this, altho' in the end I didn't realize how long a 5-hour drive really is. And since I'm not the one that can easily sleep on drives, I took a snapshots of things that caught my attention. Fascinated by the lack of leaves and the beauty of this tree. The beauty lies in the verdant landscape. We hit a traffic jam. The jam happened to be a parade for the Feast Day of St. Joseph, which comes every 19th of March. But this day was March 17th, and back home we would be celebrating St. Patrick's Day. They probably had the parade today since it was a weekend. For a large stretch, we traversed a curvy country lane road, one lane each way that climbed up and went down. While I'm saying country lane here, it's more like residential since there are houses on one sid...