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Soo, tired by the notorious arenal, we head for the rest of the country starting from Monteverde, in which we will be travelling around scenic regions of lake arenal.

We start our journey by seeing the frequent animals around the costa rica roads whose names I will never learn. They have a hard to remember name and i already asked like 6 times to people. Sorry guys,, but they are really cute, and they definitely are really friendly with you as they know that you have food =)

Now we come to our gorgoues views finally. We start from some views around lake arenal which is absolutely stunning from different angles.
The interesting thing is in this country none of the mountains are brown, they are always green. This is what we call the forest but the mountains at the same time, even if there is no trees it is green grass and it looks real beautiful trust me...

Our poses with our duldul (car in Turkish =)
Some other gorgeous view from a restaurant close by..

Lake arenal is definitely much less notorious than its mountain counterpart.. The pictures we took are absolutely awesome..

After that we head away from lake arenal, you guys have absolutely no idea. Such an amazing scenic route, the best I have seen so far... Nowhere the green is so colorful andvaried that you can feel like your are in a virtually made up world... (Yes I haven't been o Switzerland yet=)

You must have the feeling that those pictures were easy to take... You could never be so wrongg..
Trust me for this scenic route you need to go through some roads as bad as Bolu's roads and yedigoller area. There is simply less
straight road compared to bumps and holes on the ground... Thanks again to our duldul....

Yes and now lets see some sky.... Especially notice the difference in the color of grass in different parts. The reason for this beauty is the constantly moving clouds which make a fake sense of moving
illumination and fake effect of different colored grass.
And some more mountain views.
I should admit that nature in Costa Rica is wonderful, although the country is way too tourist and it is way much harder to get into the culture of Ticos (costaricans call themselves that way). I couldn't get into it obviously in only 10 days.... Hard transition from Turco to Tico ....

And finally we arrive to Monteverde, which is mainly fmous for its cloudforest, which is the best in the country. More to come about that soon. By the way, monteverde means the green mountain in spanish.. Yet I have absolutely no clue why they called it that way ¿=)

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My Road To Monteverde