Our hotel highly recommended a visit to the local rescue center.  The story is 2 retired zookeepers from Madrid would find sick animals on their doorstep, so one thing led to another . . . .   The government gives no assistance so public support pays the bills.  It was fun to do, they had 20 to 30 animals, all with a story, birds with broken wings or broken beaks, abandoned exotic pets that can no longer live in the wild, monkeys that were disowned by their original pack and the previous rescue monkeys have made their own “pack” in the nearby jungle and accept the new chimps.

Of course it all makes for great photography, since you can hear toucans, but so hard to photograph them, you can spend time in the chimps because they need to be held,  or see a 2 or 3 toed sloth close up, in the wild they are 50 feet above your head in a blob of brown, and the best of all is the red-eyed tree frog which is nocturnal but they wake them for the tourists.  I have wanted this picture for years, and now I can truly say I am in Costa Rica.

Pura Vida.