Welcome to Costa Rica!
Costa Rica is a very beautiful and full of green
It holds the rivers and plenty of trees
Different kinds of wildlife
A lot of beaches
Visit us
Because Costa Rica has it all!
Oooh! Perfect, thank you!
Costa Rica!
A word that is used as a proverb for far regions
For example
"He is two hours late as if he's coming from Costa Rica!"
But in reality, it is a country found in Middle America
A wonderful country
Nature
Waterfalls
Wildlife
Birds
Reptiles
Indeed, the entire country is an open zoo
Their currency is called colón
And its approximately the best currency paper I have seen in my life
I traveled to it by bus from Panama
I have entered it personally using my schengen visa
I discovered, later on, that schengen is not valid for Costa Rica
So don't ask me about it, because I, myself, don't know how they let me in
Anyhow, the people there are life-loving
The word they say the most is
And it means "A pure life"
They use this word in all their situations, whether greeting someone or on farewells, everything
I have spent around a week in Costa Rica
And I want to show you in this video, my simple travel experience there and give you a bunch of advice
We just left the capital, San José
And we haven't even started the trip yet
But we started entering the Costa Rican nature
Check out the forests, outside
I'm very excited to see Costa Rica!
Our journey started from the capital of the country, San José
But the capital doesn't really have anything interesting
So we took the car and went to a region called La Fortuna
Good morning from La Fortuna!
In Costa Rica!
The word that many people thought was a swearing term but it turns out to be a real country [joking]
The place is really nice, we are living in these huts called
Case Torre Lodge
The place is magical
Since we arrived we started seeing animals
And we are not even outside the hotel
Monkeys, birds, parrots flying around
Toucan birds
There are many things, let me show you the room we have taken
A wooden hut on the edge of the mountain
And the huts are located precisely for you to be able to see the volcano
This is La Fortuna Volcano
Our stay at the hotel includes breakfast
Breakfast is served
We have some fruits, some eggs
Its very simple
However
What's nice about it is that its family business here
So you feel the family ambiance
In addition to the view while you are eating
The region, La Fortuna, we are in is full of nature, forests, waterfalls
So now we are going to one of the waterfalls
Its called "La cascade de La Fortuna"
But the problem is that all the activities here are expensive
So the entrance to this waterfall costs $18
As you enter, there is this bridge
A place you can see the forest from
I also expect animals on the road
We have almost arrived to the La Fortuna waterfall
Its there in front of us, the road is nice
We are in the middle of the forest
The place is friendly
And they say the waterfall looks marvelous
We arrived to the waterfall!
My dear viewers
Its beautiful, just beautiful, and huge
Its not very clear
But we're going for a swim inside the waterfall
Yalla (Ready)?
Costa Rica is a popular country for planting coffee!
As you know, there are two types of coffee: Arabica, Robusta
And its illegal to plant Robusta coffee here
We went and saw the farm, the seeds, the cacao and all of that
But I will not dive deep in it because I have already done a video about it in Colombia
But now,
We will proceed with the trip
We arrived to another place in the region
Its called Mystic Park
Or Arenal Hanging Bridges Park
The entire place is in the forest
There are bridges you can go on
In the middle of the place
Its very nice to have a walk inside
The entrance is for $27!
This country has a lot of entrance tickets to pay
Its a bit expensive
But, you know, we're not here every single day
So we have to pay
♫ Piano Music ♫
The road in this garden is approximately 4 KM
It takes two hours of walking
Along the road you can enter some gardens on your left
To see different animals and plants
This region is called the Hanging Bridges region because it contains more than one of these bridges
This one is normal, its nice, look at the nature around it, it's magnificent
But we still have ten bridges in front of us, I guess
And each one is surround by a different type of nature and shapes
When you come to natural places like this one
You feel that it holds a wonderful capability of raising your psychological mood
No matter how much stress you had, no matter how psychologically tired you were
No matter how many problems you had
You come here and listen to the birds
Listen to the river
The smell of the trees
There is a phenomenal spiritual connection between us, humans, and nature
We arrived to the first bridge, amazing
In this park
Look, look at the bridge
Legendary!
Woooooo!
Its in the middle of the nature, of course
Behind us, there is the volcano
Animals and nature all around us
Honestly, this place and similar places with forests and animals
Reminds me of a book I was listening to two days ago on an app called "Storytel"
Called "Mowgli"
The one we used to watch when we were kids
It has a very nice audiobook
I recommend you listen to it
"According to the jungle book, which orders only by reason"
"It's prohibited for any animal to eat a human"
And honestly all the books that talk about the interconnection of nature and humans
I like to listen to them
Storytel app contains thousands of book in Arabic and English
But if you're interested in nature
You can also listen to Kilimanjaro Spirit book
Even the summary of Into the Wild book
Which was made a movie after a while
I have listened to both books, and I liked them
And then again thank you "Storytel" for supporting the content of this channel
They supported this video in specific
And if you don't have an app
You can find the download link in the description box
Lets continue to the end of the park
As we left the park
A storm began
Its looks strong, God is merciful
It looks that its a very strong storm
Out of the things we noticed in Costa Rica
Is that the popular animals and birds there
You can see them a lot more when you are in the hotel, streets, and public places
More than when you are inside the public gardens
While we were on the road, Ahmad and I bought some chips and then discovered it is made of
Of pig's leather
And we also found a bunch of animals that looks like racoons or such
So I will give them the chips
But be careful though, this is Haram (forbidden in Islam)
Lets see if they eat haram or not [joking]
Turns out they do eat haram food [joking]
Turns out it's forbidden to feed them chips
It's wrong
I'm only using the chips as bait but I will not feed them chips because it's wrong
Very friendly, such a big group of them
They want to take pictures but I'm here recording, my friend
Amazing! We just saw a sloth on the tree
And I flew the drone and captured such amazing footage that I didn't expect
Ah!
So wonderful, how he looks
[the sound you heard]
We're now going out of the hotel we were in
In La Fortuna
You should come to this place and if you do, say hi to our friend Jonathan
Pura Vida!
God bless you
We went from La Fortuna region towards Monteverde
Around three hours on the road
But the road itself is entertaining
The amount of nature, animals, and rivers!
So the road will be an important part of your trip
Our day started in Monteverde
We still didn't go anywhere
We just stopped on the road to check out the carpet of nature in front of us
On the road to the first garden we are going to today
We passed by a small supermarket called Hummingbird Gallery
There is a bird called the hummingbird and has a long beak
He goes to the flowers and takes their nectar
They have so many of these birds here, so many
In all types, shapes, and colors
Because they have water specifically for them
So they are all over the place
it feels like a helicopter flying around, near your ears
It's amazing how they hover
Its the first time I see such birds and the first time I see such a number of hummingbirds in one place
How's it going?
- It's excellent, marvelous
- Look at this scenery
Wow!
,Out of the things that Costa Rica is well-known for
When it comes to wildlife, are the frogs
But if you want to see them in nature, it would be a bit hard
So you can go to many places like a small zoo specific for frogs
Like this place behind me
You can enter it and see all types of frogs!
The wildlife is very important to them here, for example some of these frogs are
Considered an endangered species
So if you steal or kill one of these animals might end you up on prison for more time compared to killing a human
It gives you 25 years of prison
If you kill one of these creatures
So the easiest thing is to come and see it in this place
We came today to the last garden we want to see in the nature of Costa Rica
Its called Coricancha
The entrance costs $20
We'll try to find a monkey or something like that
And this the entrance, you can spend here two or three or four hours, or even more
And supposedly you'll be able to see a lot of animals
This is the entrance, let's go
♫ Music ♫
These are the rainforests in Costa Rica
You might see here all species of animals but you need to be patient
You should walk slowly and look around in the trees
Its an entire experience by itself, just like meditation but with animals and nature
It can't hold your weight
What are you doing?
Wait, its like sports
We have been walking for around an hour
We barely saw some animals, we just saw some birds
A squirrel, we saw small creatures and insects and some nice butterflies
But its obvious you need to spend a lot of time here to be able to see
Many things
There's a bird there, look
As long as you're walking you can hear the sound of birds and nature and all
But to see them, that's a bit hard
We are suffering to see a single animal
♫ Music ♫
We were now leaving but our luck was good because almost near the entrance
We saw a bunch of monkeys
We were about to leave, all the animals started to appear
All of sudden, just like that
As if they're saying "Come on, we're just joking, don't leave"
This is something the monkey was eating and throwing at us
At least we saw something
In Monteverde, this is the apartment we had
Small and simple
There is a bed but most importantly
The wall is full of glass that grants a view of the forest
We were so happy with it
A night here was for $50 for two people
It is amazing, the location is in the middle of the forest
I found it on Airbnb
Where you might find a lot of nice things
And the place before it I found it on Booking.com
So its normal that you find amazing places on these websites
Goodbye our lovely apartment
We are going to a new city
Towards
The beach, after we spent time in forests
After Monteverde, our final destination was a city called Manuel Antonio
By the Pacific Ocean
We stopped in the middle of the road, there is a bridge that looks amazing
And there is a river near it
We climbed the bridge and took some drone shots that you will now see
How beautiful, the roads here in the forest are enough by themselves
You can come to this country and go nowhere but drive on the roads
And you will be happy indeed
While we were driving, the sun was about to set
A marvelous scenery
With everything: the mobile, drone, camera
The view is really magical, from the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen
If someone wants to understand what the beauty of nature is
And beautiful views and animals
Its important that he comes to Costa Rica
We are now in the garden that is the most visited in all of Costa Rica and its called Manuel Antonio
It is on a coastal city
So it is very touristic
The entrance costs around $20 and for the first time we took with us
A guide, inside the garden
The guide took $20 for each person
However, when you're walking in the middle of the garden
If you don't have a guide with you, it's very possible that you pass by many animals and not be able to see even one of them
You would be like a "deaf guy in a wedding" (Arab proverb)
It's hard to see them by yourself, they also have binoculars that you can use
Telescope
If you'd like to see the biggest number of animals
You need to hire a guide
Look, we just stopped, we don't know what's happening and we can't see anything
- There is a red crab
- A red crab, how did he notice it? I don't know
- We have many other animals, the most known ones in the park
- Would be the monkeys and the sloths
- We are going to see some of them today
♫ Music ♫
Out of the most important activities in Costa Rica is to go and swim in the ocean
So we just arrived to the ocean and we want to go to the beach
And swim a bit
I was about to take a shower in the hostel
Suddenly I see these parrots, they're multicolored and look like the phoenix bird
They are all on the trees, there are many of them
The flock was coming and stopped here
They look legendary, legendary, legendary!
So I left the shower running to record them
When I heard their voice
Legendary!
At the end of the trip, we went back to the capital and traveled from it
This video was my experience and it doesn't cover anything from the innumerable activities
That are found in Costa Rica
I hope you have benefited one way or another
And if you have questions, put them down in the comments section
Say "May God increase your travels" (In Arabic)
- Pura Vida!
May God increase your travels
- Katara haratkom
Yeah
- Pura Vida
Peace
Pura Vida!
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