Kids Saving the Rainforest

We headed back to the Manuel Antonio National Park with Marie and Sylvain. This time, we stayed close to Quepos at the Blue Banyan Inn. The inn is part of a finca (farm) which encompasses 25 hectares (or 65 acres) of rainforest. To get there, we drove through 3 miles of jungle and for 2.5 miles, questioned if we were lost.

At one point, you do pass a very small village that suggests that you might still be headed the correct way.

The Blue Banyan Inn has a variety of animals roaming the property and the owners are active in the Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR) organization.

KSTR purchased 4 acres of rainforest property where they built an animal rehabilitation center in which they care for and release injured and abandoned animals. During breakfast time one morning, our kids got to meet these cute marmosets who have been nursed back to health.

Marmosets and Tamarins, collectively known as "callitrichids" are charming New World monkeys that dwell within the rain forest canopy of Central and South America. They are among the smallest members of the monkey family, usually weighing around 1 pound.