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Palm oil
January 10 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 82 °FDriving through the palm oil plantations. This used to be bananas, but palm oil grows better here.
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January 10 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 82 °FDriving through the palm oil plantations. This used to be bananas, but palm oil grows better here.
January 10 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 81 °FFound a dead blue morphology butterfly. The color is so vibrant. Played with some lizards too.
January 10 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
We enjoyed rafting on the cleanest river in Costa Rica and either the cleanest or second cleanest river in Central America. The water was so clear.
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January 9 in Costa Rica ⋅ ⛅ 81 °FAfter a busy day and a half in the indigenous village, we spent a couple hours relaxing on the beach. The name of the beach comes from the holes carved into the limestone by the water.
January 9 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 90 °FTook a significant trek to a water hole. Great swimming. Some climbed the rocks to get to a waterfall.
January 9 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 82 °FStudents are learning how to carve traditional masks from a local artist. Balsa trees are grown on his property for this purpose.
January 8 in Costa Rica ⋅ 🌙 72 °FPineapples grown commercially take 6 months to grow. But in the indigenous community, where they use no chemicals, it takes up to 10.
January 8 in Costa Rica ⋅ 🌙 72 °FThese facilities are part of the indigenous tribe’s tourism project. It is a way to create jobs in the local community and give people the ability to earn a living. Lack of jobs has been a reason tribe members have left.
January 8 in Costa Rica ⋅ 🌙 72 °FWe are in a very rustic indigenous community learning about their culture. Students processed cocoa...from roasting to grinding to tasting a traditional drink. But thee ancestors of our hosts would not have added sugar.
