The Rainforest Experience

Costa RicaMarch 28 – April 5, 2014Field School GEMS

Students Attending: Abbie, Annika, Chandler, Marie, Sophie, Isabella, Lauren, Emma, Lucy, Gwen, Lily, Elin, Ally, Emma, Aurora, Maya, Anna, Kal

Chaperones: Mary Hill, Mary Trandem, Jeanne Yanish

Travelers

Traveling to Costa Rica

Hotel Robledal in Alajuela Costa Rica Breakfast at Hotel Robledal

MSP Airport Volcano from plane

Dining Delicacies

A Typical Costa Rican Meal

Rice and beans Salad A vegetable Your choice of

meat Plantains Juice or water

Casados

Vulcan Poas has an elevation of 8,885 ft.

It has expolded 39 times since the 1800s

Located in a cloud Forest

Laguna Botos is a crater filled with rainwater

Botos means boots in Spanish

Poas Volcano

Botos Lagoon

Life at the Field Station

Tirimbina

Nature Hike

Rainforest pathHog nosed pit viper

Two-toed Sloth

Blue Morph Butterfly“Hot Lips” flower

Nature Hike

Tirimbina RiverPoison Dart Frog

WoodpeckerUp to the Canopy

Leaf FrogWalking Palm

Studying Bats

White Water Rafting

Pura Vida

Coffee Cooperative

El Uno School

Games Across Cultures

Ant Farm

Sarapiqui River Boat Trip

Jesus Christ Lizard

Anhinga

Caiman

Iguana

Making Chocolate

Cacao Tree

Cacao pod

Chocolate Helpers

Elevation 5,479 ftLast major eruption 7/29/68

Volcano Arenal

Volcano Hike

Great CurassowWhite Throated Magpie Jay“Giraffe Tree”

Kapok Tree El Ceibo 400 years old Lava Rocks

Mentors and Guides

Costa Rican Beauty