Today we said goodbye to Las Islas and transferred to our new location for the next few days, La Cusinga Lodge, on the Pacific coast.

Along the way we saw some scenic views and landscape that we had missed driving in the other night due to dark, and stopped to see some mysterious large stone spheres carved by an ancient civilization in the area.

After we arrived, we had time to hike down to the sea through the rainforest.  It was incredibly hot & humid, and even with a shore breeze I worked up quite a sweat.  But we were rewarded with some different types of rainforest vegetation and animals than we’d seen up to this point, including this orchid.