Costa Rica mountains and hillside was amazing.  view into valley was unbelievable. It was so much green for miles, and miles. cloud formation.

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With cerulean seas and verdant forests, magnificent Maya ruins and smoking volcanoes, Central America is like a tropical fairy tale except all of it is real.


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