Manual Antonio

We visited the town of Quepos and Manual Antonio National Park and absolutely loved all of the beautiful sites we saw. This was definitely the most beautiful park we've been to. There were the most beautiful beaches and views of the ocean from hikes in the rainforest. There was so much wildlife just right next to you at every moment. It was a little funny for us, because we had seen most of these things before and everyone around us was freaking out. They would freak out when they saw even just a lizard or a crab! Also, the white faced monkeys are great and we love them every time we see them, but it was interesting to see the kind of excitement from others that we had on our first viewing of them. They are the virgin Costa Rican explorers while we are now pros. It was really funny when we were on the beach because both the regular raccoons that we see in the states and the Costa Rican racoons that are all over down here kept coming up to people. They would walk right up and even take food out of tourists bags while they were laying at the beach. We all got a kick out of it. There were also a few deer becoming very confused as they were feeding in the brush and people from the beach moved very close to them. They turned around to run, but we were on the trail in that direction. They ended up just sprinting back down the trail and another tourist told us later that he saw the deer running at him. We saw a sloth sleeping up on a power line, so I had to of course take a picture of that.