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As I drink a cup of Costa Rican coffee on a cold morning in San Francisco, I remember the elation of running and laughing with my kids and nieces under a warm tropical rain, through luscious green rain forest, towards an almost empty Caribbean beach. Once we got to the beach, we jumped into the ocean and played for hours with the waves. I could still feel the wetness on my skin as my kids, returning back to our little hotel right next to Cahuita National Park.
My sister and her family, and my two kids and I were staying for 5 days at Kelly Creek Inn, an amazing little find in the town of Cahuita, at the foot of Cahuita National Park. Cahuita Park is an 11km rainforest park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica in the southern Caribbean coast of the Limon province. The province of Limon is English/Spanish bilingual thanks to the large Jamaican descendant population in the area.
We had gone to Costa Rica, from San Francisco, on our way to visit my family in Ecuador. My sister is currently living in Costa Rica, and we had the fortune of being able to stop by to see her and her kids. We arrived to Cahuita and Kelly creek after a 4 hour drive from San Jose. Costa Rica is an expensive country if you compare it to other Latin American countries, so the first week of our stay there, except for a one night stay at gorgeous but more expensive Manuel Antonio, we did just did day trips from