Pacific-Manuel Antonio

Manuel Antonio claims to be the most visited national park in Costa Rica--a feat that creates questionable bragging rights and visible consequences. We were lucky enough to visit during the rainy season, and a not very rainy one at that, meaning that number of tourists was relatively low.

These guys were everywhere, alongside capuchin monkeys and tropical raccoons. 

The exit of the park was flanked by a shallow river where men with boats offered to ferry you across for a low fee, thereby protecting you from the apparent multitude of crocs in the waters. After we declined such a generous offer they admitted that the crocs were only way upstream and of no threat whatsoever. The impact of intense tourism was pretty clear with such entrepreneurial businesses popping up everywhere.

This macaw wasn't actually in the park, but close enough for it to count.