Nicaragua
| Costa Rica, January 2020 | Honduras
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| San Jose Poas Volcano La Paz Hacienda Alsacia |
Costa Rica: San Jose
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| The National Theater (a beloved national icon) |
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| The "Blue Castle" The original national legislature |
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| Edificio Metálico (1890s) A steel school building |
San Jose: Pre-Columbian Gold Museum
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| American fauna, at the time humans first arrived. |
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| Harpy Eagle pendant |
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San Jose: National Museum
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| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica |
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| Metates (grinding stone tables) |
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| Carved stone tables |
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| Carved stone sphere (an archetypical Costa Rican relic) |
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| Coffee Country: Overview and biases |
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San Jose: Jade Museum
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| Amulets, with stylized human figures |
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| Amulets, with stylized human figures |
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| Archetypal carved stone spheres |
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| Female figure 500-800 AD |
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| Incense burner |
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| Stone owl Perhaps carrying a soul to the afterlife |
Costa Rica: Poas Volcano
There's no red lava at the Poas Volcano, just a bubbling pool with lots of smoke.
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| Poas Volcano: Helmeted tourists |
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| Coffee fields, 8 miles South of Poas |
Costa Rica: La Paz Waterfall Gardens
The "La Paz Waterfall Gardens" is a small wildlife center plus waterfall walks. It's quite fun.
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| An amiable sloth |
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| My guide, at butterfly hatchery |
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| Snake on a long stretch |
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| Golden Eyelash Pit-Viper |
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| Fer de Lance |
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| A very stick-like snake |
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| Caged jaguar |
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| Tiny red poison dart frogs |
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| Tiny green and black poison dart frog |
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| Traditional ox cart |
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| Wild coati |
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Costa Rica: Hacienda Alsacia
The one-and-only Starbucks coffee farm. It's a real working farm, but it's main purpose is as an agronomy center
for their network of Farmer Support Centers, which support the small coffee farmers who are their main suppliers.
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| Tour guide + plant globe |
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| Coffee seedlings |
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| Newly sprouted beans |
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| Coffee flowers + worker bee |
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| Freshly plucked ripe beans |
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| Collecting beans! |
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| Sun drying beans: turning the beans |
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| Coffee tasting ceremony |
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| Coffee fields |
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| Pious offering to Poas Volcano |
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Nicaragua
| Honduras
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