{"id":7,"date":"2008-12-28T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anirama.com\/costarica\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-12-28T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T05:25:13","slug":"san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose, Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft wp-caption\" style=\"width: 240px;\"><a title=\"Barcelo San Jose Palacio by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3181736510\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3263\/3181736510_2eafe14461_m.jpg\" alt=\"Barcelo San Jose Palacio\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Hotel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tour starts with a meeting tonight, so we have the whole day to ourselves. The guys slept until 1 pm, hopefully beating back some of their colds. Quesadillas for lunch around the pool, and then Sarah, Eric and I headed out for some touring of our own. Kevin stayed back at the hotel to keep fighting off his cold.<\/p>\n<p>We took a cab to the National Museum and learned some of the history of Costa Rica and Central America. The highlight, though, was visiting their butterfly garden &#8211; an enclosed area with about a dozen different butterflies, interesting native plants and some exotic spiders and other insects thrown in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a title=\"Odd Tree by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3180044675\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3490\/3180044675_34cbccae6c.jpg\" alt=\"Odd Tree\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m not sure what kind of a tree this is &#8211; the plaque under it said Jacaranda, but I don&#8217;t think they grow these beans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a title=\"Huge Caterpillars by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3180882634\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3094\/3180882634_e41e60190d.jpg\" alt=\"Huge Caterpillars\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">These giant caterpillars are about 4&#8243; long. Sorry, don&#8217;t know what they become.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3180883136\/\" title=\"Morphos Resting by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3125\/3180883136_c244c501ac.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Morphos Resting\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The underside of a Morphos butterfly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3180882874\/\" title=\"Morphos Wing by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3458\/3180882874_898b11a24c.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Morphos Wing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The top of a Morphos wing. It was lying on the ground like that, honest!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3180045819\/\" title=\"Yellow Aphids by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3490\/3180045819_eb092f2464.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Yellow Aphids\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Aphids. I&#8217;m used to green ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the museum and butterfly garden we took a walk around the plaza. It was a busy Sunday afternoon, but we were happy to grab a cab and head back to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>More napping, relaxing and hanging out &#8217;til dinner, then our intro meeting with Paul the tour guide. It looks like there will be about 46 people on the tour, from all around the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Hotel The tour starts with a meeting tonight, so we have the whole day to ourselves. The guys slept until 1 pm, hopefully beating back some of their colds. Quesadillas for lunch around the pool, and then Sarah, Eric and I headed out for some touring of our own. 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