Marguerite's Travels

The National Museum is housed in a building that used to be Bellavista Fortress. It was built in 1917 and was used as military barracks.  The first part of the museum is a butterfly garden with butterflies flitting about everywhere.  There's a display of the various stages of butterfly development.

This road leads up to a trail to the lake.  The road is extremely rough. It's rocky with a lot of potholes. But the forest is beautiful and the air smelled wonderful.

Arenal Volcano from afar.  I read that you can sometimes see smoke rising.  It was too cloudy for that while I was there. But it's still impressive.

Just a random nature shot.  It's difficult (at least for me!) to get a big nature shot.  There is just so much greenery.

I took a chocolate, coffee, and sugarcane tour.  The tour covered the plants growing and how each product was processed, culminating in a taste test.  I had coconut and almonds added to my taste of chocolate.  It was delicious!

I also went on a sloth tour.  The sloths weren't as clear as the birds we saw, as well as other wildlife.  This toucan was eating a lunch of berries. Taking a tour with a guide was well worth the price, he was able to spot things I would never have seen. He also had a telescope, and my pictures were taken with my pone held up to the telescope.

Though this is the Jade Museum, there is a lot more to it than jade.  It contains exhibits covering the area history. I was struck by most of the exhibits covered mainly the male life, this was the only exhibit that showed the women's role.