Day 4- horseback riding, canopy zip lining, more delicious food

Our morning routine has been established as we wake up with the sunrise every morning- 05:30. This morning has been the most beautiful with the least amount of clouds as we look out to Manuel Antonia National Park.  We relaxed on the back porch before getting our thing together for the days adventures. Breakfast and then off.

We had another guy join us for horseback riding from another hotel.  He was from Quebec and is a production manager for Cirque de Soleil. Our tour guide Dyala has been doing tours since she was 13 with her father and is now 28.  She says she loves what she does, but the work is hard and she's looking to get into the cruise line industry. She took us around and we ended up taking routes similar to that of Monday's ATV trip. We even stopped at he same waterfalls. However, she showed us what BenGay is in its natural form. The meal after the excursion was a curried chicken with rice and bean, plantains, a cucumber pineapple salad. Drinks included water and natural orange juice that looked like lemonade. Of course on our way back to the hotel, I fell asleep and we cleaned up and siesta before our second excursion of zip lining at 14:15.

We got picked up early for our zip lining experience at 14:00. On the way, we picked up another couple

from Texas who was celebrating their honeymoon as well getting married on the same day as us. The restaurant that we would be starting and finishing from was about 200m from a local hospital. The canopy tour had 12-13 lines and 24 platforms. Our guides names were porcupine, mosquito, and bumblebee. They were great guys also showing and teaching us about the natures of the jungle. They explained to us about the leaf cutter ants, the poisonous frog, termites, pointed out different sloths, and the trees. We propelled fast and medium speed line, some short, some long. Desiree got stuck on only 1 line while 2 for me. On the last line we could choose to zipline or freefall. Both Desiree and I chose free fall. We ended with a nice snack of fruits chocolate cookies, and yummy mango/pineapple juice that was thick with pulp and was similar to a smoothie. We were lucky to have just the 4 of us in this group as it was like a private tour. We were told

that in season, the group are sizes of 40-45 people. I couldn't imagine being in such a big group like that. Bumblebee was our photographer and took awesome pictures which we decided to purchase as we left everything back at the hotel.

We returned back to the hotel for a quick shower and caught our hotel shuttle to drop us off on the main road for us to walk and figure out where to eat for dinner.

Kapi Kapi was decided and what a fantastic choice it was. We where the only guests there during our time

so it felt like a private intimate dinner with just the 2 of us I'm costa rica. We started with seafood cigars and for the main course: Desiree with peppercorn seared tuna with a papaya salad and myself- red snapper with lentils and a sweet butter chili sauce. This was yet the best food we have had here in Costa Rica.

Of course as our regular schedule has it, we walked home, and again we have lucked out with the weather not raining was their was a refreshing light mist as we ventured home. 

Pura Vida!

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