We had decided that we would splurge on tickets to this attraction, because it offers so much in one location. It is one of the stops on many of the high end costa rica tours and is recommended by Conde Naste travel magazine.
The website makes mention of the possibility of a discount for volunteer groups or missionary groups. Still, we were not prepared for the generosity that was shown to us when we arrived at La Paz. I told the staff and administration of our plans to volunteer at Camp Penuel. They gave us 4 complimentary tickets and asked only that we purchase lunch from the on site buffet!
We had a wonderful day exploring all that the park offers high in the cloud forest near Volcan Poas. We each had our favorite areas.
I felt most alive searching for blue jeans poison dart frogs and red-eyed tree frogs, because we had tried so hard to find them in Playa Chiquita without success.
The exotic chicken loved having the toucan sit on his arm! (Just like in the pictures.)
Spot (dot) it and her mom loved the butterflies! They got to watch a butterfly emerge from its cocoon, and because she was so quiet and gentle, Maelle held a blue morpho butterfly on her hand for at least half an hour, before it fluttered away for its first ever flight.
It was a beautiful and peaceful day in the mountains made even better by the generosity of La Paz Waterfall Gardens!
Tell Maele I have had experience with the blue Morpho too.
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