Cañas and the Río Corobici

During our stop in the city of Cañas, we decided to go on a wildlife watching rafting tour on the nearby Río Corobici.
The river looked rather normal at the first sight : just water, rocks and trees...



Then we saw some capucinos (white headed monkeys), that we had already spotted on Ometepe island :


But there was way more than that. We saw plenty of big iguanas : the big orange males, and the smaller but still impressive green females...





We also saw a lot of Jesus Christ lizards : these 20cm long reptiles run on their back legs, which really makes them look like small dinosaurs from Jurassic Park... And their name simply comes from the fact that they run on water ! They actually were so fast that we couldn t get any on a picture, so here is one from Google :


The river looked really nice, but we didn´t really feel like swimming...
The local "cocodrilos" were already having a pretty good time on their own !


This rafting tour was our first step into the wild of Costa Rica...
And much more is to come in the Monteverde National Reserve where we will be heading tonight !