Lucky Bug Gallery and B&B in Costa Rica

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The Lucky Bug B&B, restaurant, and art gallery is one of my favorite stops on the main road to Nuevo Arenal. http://luckybugcr.net/

Lucky bug 

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The Lucky Bug Gallery offers a variety of handmade arts, crafts, decorative ceramics, and paintings. For more info visit  http://luckybugcr.net/ 

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The Restaurante Caballo Negro has an astonishing array of international vegetarian dishes made with organic ingredients. Many German favorites are also on the menu. http://luckybugcr.net/ 

toucan

Collared Aracari

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The Bed & Breakfast is housed in the backdrop of the lake. http://luckybugcr.net/ 

hummingbird sipping

The dining patio overlooks a private lake where the tropical birds such as toucans, aricaris, tanagers, woodpackers, hummingbirds, and magpie jays regularly feast at the feeders. This hummer I captured in action as it hovered to sip the sweet liquid in the feeder.

 

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