We are now in Costa Rica with literally all the sound of the rainforest around us, I am amazed at how we are constantly in the jungle, it took a bit of going up and down the same road a couple of hundred times until we finally found the tiny entrance to the Ficus tree down a wet slippery leafy trail which we all slipped on at least once or twice.

The Ficus tree was easy to spot among the other trees  because of its hollow inside, I immediately ran to the inside of the hollow tree and I looked up to the top, it was so high up that I couldn’t see the end of the tree!

I then started to climb it, there were lots of different handholds and footholds so that you could easily find your way up.  I went to the middle of the tree about three times,  then once I climbed to the top but I turned back because it started to get quite tight, and it was harder to find places to put my hands and feet.

Once or twice I would stick my head up and my hand out so that daddy could take a picture of me.

It was quite hard for Arlo to climb the Ficus tree because at the start of the climb the branches were very far away so he had difficulty stretching his little legs out to be able to reach the other branches to pull himself up, it was a fine adventure climbing up  the Ficus tree and I am really proud of myself for accomplishing this event.it was really fun to climb the Ficus tree!