The lunch we had was traditional Costa Rican fare: rice and beans with a variety of cooked fruits and vegetables. Dessert was small pastries filled with jams from the farm. The kitchen was pristine and the pots and pans were spotless. The meal was cooked on a wood-fired cook-stove in the center of the kitchen.
Lunch was of course preceded by the morning, which of course began with a bird watching walk before breakfast. Then we walked out about a half-mile into the Pacific (well not exactly) to the “whale’s tail” — a strip of rocky beach only accessible at low tide. We saw water birds and fiddler crabs, and watched small snails make beautiful patterns in the sand. Afterwards, we drove on the Pan American Highway (which stretches from Alaska to the tip of Argentina) to its highest point (10931 ft) and then back down to our lunch spot (in a village named Siberia). After lunch, we drove deeper into the mountains, caught a glimpse of quetzal, and visited a hummingbird garden. It’s not just the colors of the hummingbirds that astonish... they come in vastly different sizes and the big ones are loud (!) when they fly past you.
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