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Hello, I'm in Costa Rica and we are in the Tortuguero rain forest.

When we got to Costa Rica, we arrived in the city of San Jose. We're going to be in Costa Rica for three weeks, but we had no plans when we got here. But Mom found a good place for us to start and it turned out to be great. Its name is Turtle Beach Lodge and it was an amazing place. Our guide's name was Mario and he was really knowledgeable. We really liked him.
 
When we got to Turtle Beach Lodge it was raining, but we didn't mind. After dinner we went on a night walk through the rain forest. We saw two red-eyed tree frogs mating. We were lucky we saw them mating on a branch so low to the ground, since normally they're really high up and you wouldn't get to see them.

Hello everybody. We've left Peru and are now in Costa Rica. To start our adventure, we were picked up by a guide named Mario from the Turtle Beach Lodge who showed us around some of the Costa Rican rain forest in Tortuguero National Park. At around 1 p.m., we got to Lodge, which stayed at for the next three nights. The first night, we went out on a night walk through the rain forest to look for red-eyed tree frogs. Not only did we get to see them, but we saw them mating, which Mario had only seen once before in his ten years of guiding.The next morning, we went on another walk through the jungle and saw some hard-to-find white tent bats. These bats chew on the edge of a palm leaf until the ends fall down and forms a tent. There were seven little white bats all huddled together under the leaf and each one was only about the size of a thumb.

My second Peru blog takes place in the Amazon rain forest. Together with the NG Kids Expedition Team, we stayed in an open-air room with no windows or doors, so we really felt like we were part of nature. To get to the Posada Amazonas Lodge where we stayed, we had to take a boat on the Tambopata River, which eventually flows into the Amazon River. When we were on our boat ride, we saw the biggest rodent in the world, a Capibara, which was really cool to see.  We also saw a troop of squirrel monkeys and as you might know, I love monkeys.
 
It was a long day of traveling to get to the rain forest and they gave us lunch on the boat. To help the environment, our lunch was vegetable rice served in a banana leaf, so when we were done, we threw the leaf in the water which the fish got a free meal from. It's totally safe for the environment and leaves no garbage. By the time we got to the lodge it was getting dark. Once we got to our room it was really dark. The rooms were lit by candles, so me and Tyler wrote our blogs by candlelight, which was different.
 
The next day we went to a lake and took out a pontoon paddle boat so that we could quietly float on the water and see the birds.

We also went to spots where we could fish for piranhas. Our group caught two of them using meat as bait. Our guide showed us the piranha's sharp teeth, which was awesome.

Hello everybody. For this blog we are reporting from the Amazon rainforest.  
 
The first thing we did when we got there was take a 90-minute boat ride to our rainforest lodge. We cruised up the Tambopata River, which is a tributary to the Amazon. It goes for 5,000 kilometers until it meets the Amazon.
 
On our ride over, we saw some nice wildlife, like the capybara, which is the largest rodent on earth and is the size of a dog. We also saw a huge tree filled with lots of monkeys. Besides mammals, we also saw lots of birds, like macaws and toucans.

Hi everyone! For this blog we start out in Mt. Lamington National Park at O'Reilly's Rainforest resort. At O'Reilly's we stayed in a cottage that stuck out of the side of a mountain and in the mornings, we could see and hear all types of colorful birds. When we were out exploring, at we came across wild birds feeding, so soon we had trays of bird seed in our hands and were being swarmed by big colorful birds called Crimson Rosellas that would perch on our shoulders and land on our heads. We also did a lot of hiking while we were there and on one of the treks we saw a memorial for a Stinsen plane crash that happened in Lamington State Park in the 1930s. One of the original founders of the resort, Mr. Bernard O'Reilly, went out to search for the missing plane and discovered it with two survivors, after over a week, so he was a big local hero.