COSTA RICA (Part 2) -Vlog 🎥 Solo trip

July 2023

10 days, 4 provinces, 2 waterfalls, 2 volcanoes, the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, wonderful people and countless species:

REPTILES: eyelash viper, spectacled caiman, American crocodile, green marine turtle, leatherback sea turtle, Mesoamerican slider turtle, green iguana, Jesus Christ lizard, green basilisk...
MAMMALS: spider monkey, mantled howler monkey, two-toed sloth, deer...
AMPHIBIANS: strawberry poison dart frog, common dink frog, emerald grass frog...
ANTHROPODS: scarab beetle, tarantula hawk wasp, lead-cutter ant, bullet ant, blue morpho butterfly, crimson-patched longwing, zebra longwing, monarch...
BIRDS: Anhinga, great egret, white ibis, northern jacana, spectacled owl, hummingbird, parrot, heron, yellow-throated toucan, common black hawk, golden oriole...
FISH: too fast and too many to identify, but pufferfish was my favourite.
FLORA: "walking trees" (move 1-20m/year), tree fern (older than dinosaurs), watery rose apple, banana, mango, coffee plantations, strawberry plantations, papyrus, cypress, bird of paradise, pineapple, almond, palms, coconut...