The GCW Tour, Costa Rica: Rainforest Adventures, The Aerial Tram

This morning we stopped at Rainforest Adventures Costa Rica Atlantic. In the 1990s, someone had the genius idea to buy up a bunch of rainforest next to one of the big national parks, buy a ski park gondola system from the US, borrow a helicopter from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and use the helicopter to install the gondola through the rain forest at about mid-tree level going out and tree-top level coming back. 

Add a few ziplines, a butterfly farm, and hummingbird area, some lodges, quite a few nature walks, etc., and you've got a thing. 

So much so that they've created the Pacific version over on the Pacific Coast.

Anyway, back to the tram. We were thinking we'd see monkeys and sloths and toucans and and and, but we didn't see much wildlife on the tram ride. (We heard monkeys and some riders ahead and behind us saw them, but they passed us by.) But it was still an incredibly pleasant, and educational, trip through the rainforest. Here are a few pictures from the gondola...