Mexico and Central America Page 3
Apparently he used to swing from the vines on his way home from school when he was a boy.
This volcano engulfed a whole village in lava before a Jesuit priest erected the "Bodillo cross" and sacrificed Spanish conquistadors to appease God.
"The mouth of hell" - looking down into Volcano Masaya, just outside of Granada, Nicaragua.
This shot was taken courtesy of our guide, "koky", who held my camera up to his telescope as a makeshift zoom lens!
Our guide for Volcano Arenal in La Fortuna, Costa Rica demonstrates that Rambo has nothing on him.
The feathers on these birds glitter in the sun like fish scales.
A rare sighting of the resplendant Quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala, photographed here in Monteverde, Costa Rica - a bird lover's paradise.
A hummingbird sucks nectar from the feeder in the Monteverde hummingbird garden.
And here is the purple version of the hummingbird...er...time to get out my bird guidebook.
She was psyching herself up for the "Sky Trek"...
I've always wanted to get a shot of a hummingbird hovering in flight. It doesn't get any better than this!!!
This will henceforth be known as "The garden of Eden"...
Angela high above the jungle canopy in Monteverde braves the heights.
We learnt to surf properly here at Tamarindo, wish we'd stayed longer....sigh...isn't that always the case!
Here at Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica, the jungle-backed beaches are home to giant iguanas, as well as numerous monkeys and hermit crabs and poisonous fruit...
The sun sets at Tamarindo beach on Peninsula de la Nicoya in Costa Rica.