Rio Loro & Cartago

On Wednesday, we went on a field trip with the 4th grade.  They were exploring the outdoors by visiting Rio Loro and then mapping what they saw in Cartago from a mountaintop.  Here are a few pictures from the day.

This is the path we took, past log cabins, to see the Rio Loro.

These bubble-like things are where scientists view the underground Rio Loro.  They check to be sure there is water.

You can barely see the trickle of water coming from the pipes.

We thought this butterfly was fake!  It's not.  The top side is bright blue and the underside has the numbers 68, 89, 98, or something like that.  It was amazing to see.  Unfortunately, this one was dead.

We saw hillsides filled with coffee plants on our drive into Cartago.

Here we are on a hillside overlooking a river and the town of Orosi.  The views from up here were beautiful!

You can't really tell from this picture, but this beetle was the largest I had ever seen!

What you are seeing here is a view of a rain forest from the hillside.  The town you see is Orosi.  This rain forest receives over 12 meters of rain every year.

While the Costa Rican students did map-making and made topological  maps of the area, the SHS students took those same maps and found all the places we had visited.  Each student also had to find where their host family lived.