Journal Entry # 28 - Rainforest Hike

12 August 2002

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Children's Eternal Rainforest So, I'm typing this on an airplane many weeks after the fact, but from what I can remember, a Swedish woman was a school teacher on holiday in Costa Rica, found the Rainforests amazing, and their rapid destruction equally striking, and decided to do something about it.  She went back and got her kids to start raising change and they started buying land to protect the rainforest.  The program was wildly successful, and children all over the world have collected change in sufficient quantities to purchase over 60,000 acres of rain forest, larger than either of the other two forest reserves located in Monteverde.

Some interesting sights

	Most of the hike was plantlife since they can't run away like the animals, so, here are some rather random shots of the rainforest.  The tree on the left grows around a host tree and envelops it.  Eventually, the host dies, leaving a hollow center, which is really cool to stare up and into.

MONOS!!!  (Monkeys!)

 

The definitive highlight of the hike was seeing these white-faced capuchins.  They traveled as a 'troop' and had maybe 10-15 members.  We were able to follow them for quite a distance before they got tired of looking at the gringos and headed off to do whatever it is that monkeys do in the absence of gringos.