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Pottery the way their ancestors made it
When you arrive in Guaitil your Guide will most likely stop at a place where an indigenous potter will show you the process of how these people maintain the tradition of their art since many generations. No mechanical devices are used, not even to turn the potters table.
After the show don't just shop in this store and leave. Please take the time to visit the many other potters and if you feel like buying compare quality and prices. The black items are more difficult to make and therefore a little more expensive like the rest. At home we started to use these items, but they suffer a lot, so we recommend to just buy them for decoration purposes.
Then the tour continues to Puerto Ballena on the Peninsula Nicoya you'll take a comfortable seat in a covered boat and a small channel will take you to the Río Tempisque. There, some large crocodiles are waiting for this tour to get a chicken lunch from the captain and the capuchin monkeys are expecting some bananas.
One of the White-faced Capuchins even grabbed a piece of banana out of the little hands of our 9 month old son Wolfgang, who was just about to put it in his mouth. If you are like me, interested in taking some incredible pictures of animals that normally are a little wilder, that is the tour for you. It was here where I could take some of my best monkey pictures so far.
But not just crocodiles in all sizes and monkeys, we also saw all kinds of water-fowl, iguanas, bats, and basilisks. At the end of the boat-ride a short drive will take you to a tiny community where you will enjoy some of the best typical country-lunches we ever had.
It is possible that the river safari comes before the visit of Guaitil!
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