Yesterday, we signed up for the Tram/Sloth Sanctuary combo tour.
The tram is a cable car up the mountain to a ten-floor-high tower from which you can look over the Rain Forest in all directions.
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ten-floor climb. I was wrong!
The cable cars held six people max. Or less -- spaced appropriately for balance. There were many, going in a continuous loop. When one was getting new passengers, our car would stop in space (like a ferris wheel ride) and then continue to make its way up again until a new group was boarding down below.
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This was an amazing, silent, slow, long ride up through the rain forest - peering into the tops of palm trees and passing huge clumps of palm fruit close enough to touch. Up, and up. Like a bird! It was wonderful. It was a slow, peaceful ride.
Going down, was just as great - in reverse. However, thanks to the fast photo snapping of our fellow rider from Yorkshire, I offer you this fabulous toucan we glided past . . . the Aracari.
Or this . . .
More toucans on our other side - the keel-billed.
Anyway, I digress -
We got to the end of the tram ride, and then walked a short way to the tower. Turns out there was a gradual ramp and not stairs going up, so I was quite able to do this.
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Below, from the canal side. The next photo was the view in the other direction.
It had been raining when we left and was overcast most of the day. That made walking around much more comfortable, as this sun can be relentless.
After descending, there was not only an Agouti . . .
But further along, a coati
Side view . . .
That's it for now.
Hansi Fri, Mar 31 at 9:26 AM
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