Sloths and Monkeying Around: Wildly Up-Close at Jaguar Rescue Center, Puerto Viejo

One of the perks of hanging out in Costa Rica:  getting a chance to play around with sweet, rescued, baby monkeys!

Put it on the "must visit" list!   No jaguars here now, but local rescues of all kinds: snakes, toucans, frogs, owls, deer, monkeys and sloths!  Basically, the animals are recuperating and some even wander around the grounds.

We got eye-to-eye with sloths, and even got a chance to play inside a cozy enclosure with baby monkeys: Squirrel monkeys, baby howlers and an infant capuchin were climbing all over us! They sure can grab on with those prehensile tails.  It really was an experience we'll never forget. Don' miss it!