Palo Verde National Park is one of the most important parks in Costa Rica and visitors can take a boat ride down the Tempisque river to see wildlife and the dry forests. Palo Verde is an excellent day excursion in Guanacaste from Playas del Coco, Tamarindo, Liberia, Papagayo Peninsula and Flamingo for all ages, particularly seniors. As it's a boat tour, so no strenuous activity is required and everyone from little kids to seniors can do this tour.
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Good morning guys, welcome to another Mytanfeet video. Today we're
super excited to share this tour with you, we are here with Randall again and he's going to be our tour guide for the Palo Verde National
Park boat tour.
On the way to the national park, we stopped at a section of the
Tempisque River to learn about the araneros which Randall gave us a
very nice explanation about.
Every rainy season, the river naturally brings a lot of sand from the higher elevations down to this areas and what they basically do is shovel a bucket of sand from the bottom of the river into a little boat. This is what they do in the deeper areas and bring this boat to the shore and have to load up that sand into an oxcart. Once they load it up, they have to bring it out to an area where machinery will bring load it up in bigger trucks.
We learned that this type of artisanal sand collecting is very important for the locals and after our stop, we headed to the dock for the boat tour.
It's going to take us around 1 hour and 30 minutes to around 2 hours and we're expecting to see lots of wildlife. We are going to see crocodiles, iguanas, bats, monkeys, different species of birds and during this time, we are also going to be learning about the different species and the important of the place where we are.
And Palo Verde national park is indeed an extremely important park in Costa Rica as it protects endangered tropical dry forest, the Tempisque Valley and the Tempisque River, which is home to a large variety of flora and fauna, particularly birds.
We visited in the beginning of March and were able to see a ton of birds like black crowed night herons, tiger herons and storks. Since we were in a covered motorized boat, we were able to get some really nice photos and videos of the animals during the safari boat tour.
After the tour, we headed to lunch and we were so excited to spot one of our favorite bird along the way: Scarlet Macaws. Macaws are scarce in Guanacaste so it was really exciting to see them here as it means their population is making a comeback.
Then for lunch, we went to a traditional Costa Rican restaurant. We had a delicious typical lunch of homemade tortillas, rice, beans, salad and chicken. And we topped it off with a nice steaming cup of Costa Rican coffee.
And that was our day at the Palo Verde National park boat tour. I want to say a huge thanks to Randall, we saw so many animals thanks to you. Thank you Samantha I'm happy you like it. If you guys want to know more about this tour just click on the links below in the description and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more Costa Rica content. Thanks for watching.
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6 окт 2024
