Costa Rica | Palm Oil Plantation

On my trip to Costa Rica my partner and I were driving around everywhere seeing rows and rows of these absurdly straight rows deep in the rainforest. Even on a rainforest tour we were seeing cleared areas of rainforest with straight little rows of these squat little plants in various stages of maturity. Finally we pulled over and asked the locals and figured out what we'd been seeing all over the place.

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San Jose Costa Rica | La Boda!

After all of our sloth watching, sunbathing (or in my case, sunburning), and snorkeling in the rainforest, it was time to head back to the city, wash off the sand and suit up for the wedding we'd come all this way for. And man, was it a banger.

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Costa Rica | Seas the Day

When you wake up you a view like this, you get pretty desperate to get out on the water. After debating between a few excursion options, we settled on snorkeling. This could've proven to be problematic, because my boyfriend cannot swim! But everything worked out great. We ended up snorkeling with another family in town for a wedding with a lot of young children.

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Costa Rica | Manuel Antonio National Park

After our pants-crapping experience whitewater rafting the day before, we decided to take it easy and head to the beach in the Manuel Antonio National Park adjacent to our hotel. It was maybe the best day spent of our whole trip...

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Costa Rica | Iguana Capital

I EAT TOURISTS 4 DINNER.

We woke up early the first day in Costa Rica our hotel to get ready for our awesome adventure! Heading to breakfast we were confronted with one interesting surprise right out of the gate- the hotel we'd picked was apparently an Iguana sanctuary. Everywhere you looked the entire time we were there- IGUANAS!

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Costa Rica | Insane Savegre River Whitewater Rafting!

After our long flight and drive to our hotel in the rainforest we were itching to get outside and see some animals! Thankfully, other wedding guests had scheduled a rafting trip and we were able to join the fun.

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Pura Vida Costa Rica

They have a SLOTH on their money! And their currency is called a Colón

I'M IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!
I haven't done a lot of foreign travel. But I always jump at the opportunity! Which is why when my partner was invited to a coworkers' wedding in Costa Rica, I jumped at the chance to go along as his "plus one." Despite having never met the bride nor the groom, I bought a plane ticket and cashed in all my vacation days, and here we are! Ashlyn, professional wedding date to the rescue.

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