After leaving the Gold Museum, we headed for the Tourist Information Center, which we found to be very helpful. A guy wrote out a schedule for catching buses to Arenal and Monteverde, places where we planned to go, which saved us a lot of hassle. We left the Center to then walk the four blocks to the InfoTur Center which he had told about.
The woman clerk at Infotur was a great, she helped us plan out the next four days, describing the various hotels, and even making reservations for us at them, and we were also able to pay for the rooms there at the InfoTur Center, giving us vouchers for the rooms. The service certainly relieved us of a lot of the insecurity we usually had during our normal practice of “flying by the seat of our pants” when we travel.
Before we left the woman at InfoTur told us to be sure to put our names in for the weekly draw, saying they give out some really nice prizes for tourists; things like free tours and wonderful souvenirs. We filled out the stubs, and with our fingers crossed, dropped them into the box.
Having been able to arrange for the next four days of our travel, we came upon the Serpentarium, a zoo for reptiles, which was strangely located on the upstairs floor of a downtown building. It was full of all kinds of snakes, lizards, and tiny green and black poison-dart frogs. Our main reason for going to the Serpentarium was to see if we could identify the big black and white snake we had seen in Manuel Antonio Park. We couldn't positively identify the snake, but it looked mostly like a boa constrictor.
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