BAD TRAVELS

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This place is not a zoo. They take in orphaned/injured animals and reptiles and do what they can to nurse them back to health and return them to the wild. Go to this place if you’re ever in Puerto Viejo. 

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This toucan has been reabbed and released back to the wild but he still hangs out here.

He’s free to come and go but he likes to hang out with the the other toucans that are still too young to be on their own.

The Fer-de-lance. One of the most aggressive and poisonous snakes found in CR. Based on what the tour guide told us about this guy, I hope we never see one in the wild.

The eye-lash viper, also extremely deadly. They breed them here.

Baby howler monkeys on our tour guide Drew and one of the other volunteers. We weren’t allowed to touch these guys, humans can transmit too many diseases to them.

But God they were cute!

We did get to go into the monkey play room and hang out with older howlers. This little guy had the softest hand.

Then he climbed into my lap and just wanted to cuddle. I dd not want to let go, I think I have a new boyfriend.

Dave had fun being a human bridge

Then he got to give this guy a little scritch under the chin.

Next up the baby sloths

How cute is that face but what about those claws hanging on to your shirt and into your chest!

The 3 toed on the left, the 2 toed on the right. The cutest babies I’ve ever seen! We were allowed to touch them and their fur feels like human hair on top with fluffy down underneath

The 2 toed sloth hanging out in the bushes

Drew the guide called this his superman pose

An even smaller baby 2 toed sloth

Seriously, isn’t this the sweetest thing you’ve ever seen?

I’m in love with this one, what a face!

A spectacled owl, here because of an injury and hopefully released back into the wild sometime soon. They are BIG birds!