Happy 50th Birthday Daniel!!
Guayabo Parque Nacional Monumento Arqueologico ( Guayabo National Park)
On our way to Earth University, we visited this fascinating archaeological site near Turrialba, a small town in the Central Valley of the Cartago province. This site was occupied between 1000 B.C. and 1400 B.C.but then was mysteriously abandoned. This is Costa Rica's only pre-Columbian site that is open to the public. We saw ancient stone carvings of alligator and jaguar gods, ingeniously engineered Pre-Columbian aqueducts where water still flows, and paved roads receding into a lush rainforest.
We encountered leaf cutter ants on the trail:
On our way to Earth University, we stopped for lunch at the Hacienda Tayutic in Turrialba and visited the old sugar mill where we saw how sugar used to be extracted from sugar cane using an ox.
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