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Some local
sights and adventures
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| A boyero
or oxen driver leads his team with a thin staff. When he simply
places the end of the staff on the oxbow between the animals,
the team will follow wherever he goes. |
A very intent
drummer boy helps his Tronadora schoolmates celebrate Costa
Rican Independence Day, September 15. A bandmate hydrates
herself with a baggie full of water |
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| A keel-bill
toucan visits a feeding platform in front of Casa Manana.
These aggressive birds have a rasping call like a very creaky
door. |
15 minutes
away, windsurfers take advantage of winds that also drive
more than 200 million -dollar wind turbines on the surrounding
hills. |
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| A hiker
guided by a local rancher examines the nationally registered
but largely unstudied Farollan Petroglyphs in a river canyon. |
Farollan
hikers cool off in a river pool near the petroglyphs. More
than 100 fish - guapote, says the guide - are usually seen
in this pool. |
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| These three friendly kids
came out of their farmhouse at the end of a Lake Arenal peninsula
to greet the rare hikers. |
On a guided horseback tour
atop the northside hills, a rider looks back at Casa Mañana's
south side of Lake Arenal. |
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The large
background photo was taken nearby at a descending series of four
high waterfalls. You
can do hiking or horseback tours to these extraordinary falls.
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