Parque National Manual Antonio, Monkeys

There were loads of different types of monkeys in the national park, bigs ones way up in the trees and smaller whited faced ones in the lower canopy.

As we were walking through a trail up from the beach we heard a pack of them in the trees and we waited. To our surprise they came right past us, I dont know who was more scared!

The older ones had sharp dirty teeth, but the younger ones were pretty cute. We stayed back and let them pass through, quite an experience!

Parque National Manual Antonio, sloths

This park is full of life, here is a beautiful example off the Costa Rican two-toed (Choloepus hoffmanni) sloth.

They were just hanging out in the trees about 30ft above our heads. The green tinge to their coat is from an alguie which sticks to them in the humid rainy seasons, I can feel for them as I am currently going through three t-shirts a day - it's so hot and humid here!

Check out the video, don't you think the face look errily human, like a small boys head on an extra large, wet, teddy bear...

Costa Rica - Parque National Manual Antonio

Continuing our travels down the coast exploring national parks, we're in a port town called Quepos. Just 9km down the coast is Parque National Manual Antonio, a coastal national park which was saved from developers in 1972 (although Maudie helped move some trees today...).

There are loads of animals in this park, and it's split on the peninsular is not unlike Railay beach in Thailand, a 50 meter shard of beach on each side connecting a bulb of land in the sea to the mainland.

But what the developers missed was the worlds gain, this beautiful area has epic trails from the beaches through the cliffs, along palmforests and tropical rainforest. And the animals were absolutely fantastic. Here are the landscape images, animal videos will follow...