Galápagos 2004 > Costa Rica > Arenal

Plants in the rain forest on the walk down to the waterfall. The whole of Costa Rica looks like the anteroom to a doctor's office: all the plants that you ever see by the receptionists desk -- the draecenas, the rubber trees, the philodendrons and bamboos and ficuses -- this is where they are all from. They are trash trees growing by the side of the road, and of course in long rows in farms, for export.
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