Each day at La Selva, the guests are split into 3 or 4
groups. The groups head out for several daily excursions with two guides to each group, a
bilingual naturalist guide and a native guide.
Generally, there is an early morning outing for several hours starting
at about 7:00 a.m. This is the best time
of day to see some of the jungle fauna before the heat of midday sets in. Then we take a long lunch and siesta during
the middle of the day and head out for a late afternoon excursion about 4:00
p.m. Sometimes another short outing after dinner
rounds out the daily activities.
On Tuesday, our morning outing was a three-hour walk along narrow
paths through the rainforest. Our guides
helped us find and interpret all sorts of jungle flora and fauna. We learned how native jungle inhabitants use
some of the plants for medicinal purposes, and we sampled several types of
exotic jungle fruit. We saw numerous spiders and insects, including an ant with
a fiercely painful bite known as the “bullet” ant, and we saw a poison frog up
close and personal.
The highlight of the morning had to be witnessing a family
of squirrel monkeys eating and playing in the treetops. We saw them jumping from branch to branch in
the canopy directly over our heads and even saw a mother carrying a baby on her
back.
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| Bullet Ant |
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| Poison Frog |
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| Squirrel Monkey |
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