Day 1: Travel and Day 2: INBio, San Jose (in pictures)*

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Day 1

Pam and Allison on the plane

View from the plane

Me and a giraffe in the Miami Airport

Day 2
INBio

Funky plant

Poisonous(?) frog

Sloth! Isn't he a cutie?

Swirly flower

Duck!

Flower that smelled really, really good

Butterflies!

Big butterfly

Butterfly on flower

Monarch butterfly on flower

Butterfly chrysalises

Fish in the pond

Turtles on a log

Ankit in a turtle shell

The FSPers from across the pond

Pretty view

Another pretty view

Pretty purple flowers

Pretty yellow flowers

Heliconia flower

Bananas

Cotton flower (pretty, isn't it?)

Strange-named plant

Goats!

Pam and a friend

This little guy decided to nibble on my hand

My little buddy

Lunch! Clockwise from top: salad, carrots with cilantro, rice, hot sauce, beans, delicious fried plantains, some sort of mixed juice

James and Sam

Internet cafe in San Jose. The cost was 300 colones per hour (about 60 cents)

In San Jose

Park in San Jose

Pam's appetizer

We went out to dinner in San Jose at an Italian restaurant about 5 minutes from La Amistad. I had bruschetta and a yummy pasta dish (chicken, tomatoes, olive oil, mozzarella, garlic, penne. Yum!). Pam had an appetizer that was deep friend plantains with guacamole, served with black beans and sour cream. Delicious!

San Jose is an interesting city. Pedestrians don't have the right of way, which makes walking around a scary experience. A group of us spent the afternoon wandering around downtown. We saw a lot of shops (so many shoe stores!) and we found a neat little market with tons of food and crafts and all sorts of things. I wish we got to spend more time there.