Sloth

Electric sloth

Our three night stay in the cool little Caribbean town of Cahuita, Costa Rica, coincided with a three day festival of rain but luckily for us the middle day was cancelled due to glorious sunshine so we made the most of it and visited its main attraction.

Cahuita is a tiny place but bizarrely has its own National Park, a tropical rainforest stretching for about 10 miles along the the coast, which is free to enter apart from the strongly enforced 'donation' which everyone has to pay.

Costa Rica is famous for it colourful and abundant wildlife but we didn't get our hopes up too high, at least for the first 100 yards when amazingly we spotted a sloth, moving at the speed of a passport control queue. Lizards, white faced monkeys, a snake and an iguana later and we were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.

Not everyone is lucky enough to spot this strange creature on their visit to Costa Rica but then the strangest thing as we sat eating our pizza in the evening, another sloth but this time crawling along the electricity wires in the main part of town, much to the amusement of the other diners. There was enough time to finish the pizza and tackle a local beer before deciding to take a picture of it.