Selvatura Again

Once again it’s off to Selvatura at the crack of mid-morning on the 10:30 bus. We have tickets for the hanging bridge walk and the butterfly garden. Once we get up there, it’s not nearly as nice a day as yesterday – cool & drizzly. But we came prepared with jackets and a hat for me and off we went.

This excursion wasn’t as much fun as yesterday’s zip lining. First, it wasn’t a guided walk so all we could say was “Yep, there’s some greenery.” Pretty, but kind of the same after a while. Second, there were quite a few people on the walk and many of them delighted in making the hanging bridges bounce and swing. Annoying when you were trying to take pictures and insecure feeling in the best of cases. Finally, we had the paths between the bridges. These are paved in a type of open cinder block. Necessary to preserve the path and help with footing, but very uncomfortable to walk on. No danger of catching your foot – openings were only ~4” – but uncomfortable none the less.

 

Here I am trying to use my hand as a measure for these giant leaves. Looks like a philodendron to me!

 

 

A pretty view.

 

An amazing shot Ken took. This is a zip liner going by on the 1 km line we were on yesterday. You can see the bridge we are on in the movie in yesterday’s post.

After the walk (~1.5 hrs), we had lunch in the restaurant figuring we would do the butterfly garden afterwards. However, we had not counted on the huge tour buses that were there that day – we didn’t finish lunch until nearly 2pm. Since we wanted to catch the 3 pm shuttle back to the hotel, we decided to blow off the butterfly garden. The tickets were freebies anyway. So that’s what we did.

Hmm. This post has a whiney tone. I don’t mean for it to be that way. This was a good day, it just wasn’t as good as yesterday. And my body is sore.

Back at the hotel, we had some beer (free), checked our email, and relaxed a bit. Lonely Planet said Trio’s is owned by the same people as Sophia’s so we drove around to find it and to get some gas in preparation for tomorrow’s journey.

Trio’s was fabulous. That’s three for three good restaurants in Santa Elena.