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Night Jungle Tour with Jade Tours

October 26, 2022 /

The second tour we took while in the area near Manuel Antonio National Park was a night jungle tour with Jade Tours. This was one of the tours listed at our resort that could be booked for us and since we were in the area for just a short amount of time, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity. The tour was $55+ tax per person. I felt that the price was appropriate since it offered an experience we couldn’t have on our own but my husband thought it could have been about 10 dollars less each since it was a shorter tour. The tour including bringing us to the private reserve was about 3 hours and included a typical Costa Rican dinner.

Frogs

Our guide, Jorge, was very knowledgeable and helped us take pictures of the different animals we encountered, mostly frogs and insects. I was amazed at how the frogs would stay still as he shined his flash light on them. He would identify each frog by sound before finding them.

It actually was pouring the first few minutes of the tours which would limit what we could see and he almost canceled the tour so we wouldn’t be charged. We waited for 10 minutes to see if the storm would pass and it did so we were able to continue on.

Insects

It was noisy near the frogs and I am hoping to have my husband share one of his videos with me in hopes of adding it at the end of this post. The second most interesting thing we saw was a millipede. Millipede spray cyanide to kill their prey and Jorge should us how he does that.

Very weird bug this was! The Bengay plant neutralizes the poison and he demonstrated that too.

Our guide told us this little guy above was a nymph, a baby. He was the size of my index finger.

Flora

We were supposed to always check around our feet with our flashlight during the tour to make sure no snakes were on the path. The main venemous snake to look out for was a brown snake. Thankfully, we didn’t see any snakes apart from a small one in a tree. The plant below is supposed to be deadly if ingested. I should have asked its name.

Reptiles

If you look closely, there is a lizard at the top in the middle in the first picture (he looks like a leaf).  The 2nd lizard is a false chameleon.

We really enjoyed our tours and I loved all of the frogs especially!

A bientĂ´t!

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