Costa Rica Adventure Travel: Snakes
Its been nearly two months since my daughter Mariah and I returned from Costa Rica. We spent merely 48 hours with Serendipity Adventures, but no trip we have ever taken was more exciting, intriguing, bonding and fun. We still talk about it almost daily, and, on the flight home, 11 year old Mariah wrote a 26 page power point of her amazing vacation.
See full letter from Kerry Kennedy Cuomo — Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Mount Kisco, NY, May, 2006
You are unlikely to notice any snakes unless they are pointed out to you by a naturalist guide.
Yes, we have snakes, and lots of them, some extraordinarily beautiful. The most dangerous is the bushmaster, which is very common in the sugar cane fields. The last fatality from a snake bite for ANYONE in Costa Rica was in 1997. The last TOURIST to be seriously injured by a snake bite was in the 1980's; no one knows exactly when. The last TOURIST killed in a CAR ACCIDENT was approximately last week. The most dangerous activity undertaken by this, and most, adventure companies in Costa Rica is to drive on the public roads, especially at night, in the fog, with no yellow lines or white lines, no place to pull off, with nothing to mark huge potholes that might have formed the last time it rained. Snakes hardly rank in comparison.
