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Tortuguero Slideshow
Tortuguero
Travel Blogs from Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Costa Rica : Bienvenu à 'touriste land'
Alors, si vous cherchez un coin en Amérique Centrale sans vouloir être ennuyé par les locaux, il faut essayer le Costa Rica et en particulier les 2 premières villes où je suis passé. Imaginez qqs rues avec des boutiques d'artisanat dont la ...
An isolated paradise
... I got off it was immediately noticeable- no cars! Just the sound of put put motorboats every now and again and oh! A toucan (a symbol of Costa Rica) swooped over my head and missed me by just a few inches. I could tell I liked this place. The high street ...
October 2009 Road Trip: Part 2
... ;If you ever get the chance to eat here, take time to read the menu as it chronicles the history of Tortuguero's first restaurant. The offerings were mostly typical dishes with great presentation and friendly service. The portions were huge ...
Treasures in the Sand
... 11 ecological habitats, 300 bird species, 57 amphibians types, 111 reptile groups, plus 13 of Costa Rica’s 16 endangered species. Tortuguero must be reached by river taxi which helps maintain its ecological diversity and pristine quality, yet ...
A full day of fun, sun and more
... make eye contact with me for some reason, and I find this true thus far for both San Jose, Cariari, Tortuguero, and I suspect the rest of Costa Rica. People are generally friendly once they are approached, but rarely will they initiate eye ...
Our Cute lodge
On our way through the Canal to the lodge we saw a monkey swimming across 600 hundred feet of water. I have a picture but it is on my camera. But here are a few pictures of where we are in day two...pouring rain at the moment ...
Day 21 and 22, Saturday and Sunday
... to bed. Saturday Woke up at 5:20 because I met Steffie and Nick at the school at 5:45 to take a taxi downtown to Grand Hotel Costa Rica where we were picked up for the tour to Tortuguero. We hopped on the bus around 6:20 and picked up a few other ...
San José- Tortuguero
... a la naturaleza en acción. Lo es más si puedes hacerlo tan de cerca. Además, con tu visita al Parque Nacional Tortuguero en Costa Rica, te llevas la satisfacción de haber ayudando a la conservación de las tortugas marinas y eso... no tiene precio. ...
Tortuguero-Costa Rica
I got the 6am bus to Pavona for $2 then transfer to a little shuttle boat for $3 which took us through the channels of Tortuguero and I managed to see some nice birds. I got to Tortuguero Village around 9:30am. I went to Cabinas Maryscal for $5 per night. ...
Pirates and Turtle-Ninjas
During the second week we finally got started with surveys. We get divided into small groups performing various ones through a well planned schedule. My first one was a so called "Bass-survey", Bass meaning Biodiversity assessment. This means a small ...
parents visit!
christmas in tortuguero with my parents and my aunt erika. got there by boat. no cars no roads. beautiful trip, continued to cahuita, arenal, monteverde and some beach no the pacific coast (flying crocodile lodge), gotta look it ...
Tortuguero
Lots of rain but we are in very pleaseant surroundings in the rainforest right on the Caribbean coast. It´s very different from the other Caribbean destinations we have seen as the sand here is volcanic and the sea very rough. We went on a walk ...
Day 20-22, Costa Rica: Tortuguero National Parc
Welcome to the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica! Very popular for its bananas plantations and its exceptional fauna and flora. I was not lucky though to see many animals because of the season but I could still see some and the nature around Tortugero park is ...
Day 27
Got up for 6 o'clock start of a guided boat tour to spot wildlife. Darryl took 6 of us, including Anna and Fred, up the river and into some beautiful inlets where we saw spider monkeys, a turtle, a cayman and lots of birds. We got back at 9 ...
Tortuguero National Park
... take away that we eat in the hostel. We had gotten a dorm just for the four of us which was nice. We stayed at the Costa Rica backpackers just 5-10 minutes walk from the city centre. The next morning we took the bus to Quepos on the Pacific coast to visit ...
Het schildpaddendorp
Zoals de naam het zelf al zegt was onze volgende stap het schilpaddendorp, daar waar de schildpadden hun eieren komen leggen en waar zich ook een nationaal park bevind. We hadden geluk of liever gezegd we haddenhet verdiend van een schildpad te ...
Exploring the Wilderness
I woke up at 7 and had some breakfast with a Dutch girl and headed out with her on the tour with a German and two Parisians. The five of us left in our canoe with our guide who seemed to have a fantastic eye for everything. We spotted various types of ...
De la tortue costaricaine à la jungle panaméenne
... évidemment, qui a pété sa chaine de vélo à 10 km de la ville? 'est le poissard... C'était le dernier email du Costa Rica que j'ai finalement à peine vu. Je vous écrits du Panama d'un ensemble d'îles qui s'appellent Bocas del Toro. En dehors de ...
En stille dag i Caribien
... -aftentur ind i junglen. Dagen blev brugt paa at ligge i haengekoejer og laese, bade og ellers tage den med ro - helt i costa ricansk aand. Klimaet paa den caribiske kyst er ikke som jeg naivt forventede inden jeg tog afsted med hoej sol og blaa himmel ...
Things lurk not only in the dark
I'm sharing a dorm with a Scotsman, an Aussie, and three juvenile green iguanas, and occasionally a bat and I´m having the time of my life. To say that life here at base-camp is simple is almost an understatement. The buildings (4 small ones) are made ...
And Then The Rains Came...
... . Life was good. We travelled together, we partied together. Now my friends were gone and it was raining. I was in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, after leaving my fun times in Bocas del Toro prematurely. So my head was down, thoughts elsewhere, and I was ...
Caribbean Dish- Mawamba Lodge
Hi All! Greetings from the Caribbean! The beaches aren´t as nice, the sand is more a grayish color, but the wildlife is unrivaled anywhere! We saw sloths, monkeys, crocs, otters, toucans, parrots, our favorite green tree frog (green with red eyes ...
La Tortuga Feliz
... " project in Costa Rica. If not, now you have! For the past two weeks I was on the northern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica volunteering at La Tortuga Feliz. (The Happy Turtle) I took the bus from San Jose to Bataan where I was met ...
Day Three - Jungle Tours
... lodge for breakfast, then headed out for a hike in the rainforest. Had to wear rubber boots because it was very muddy. A little Costa Rican girl welcomed us girls with a fresh tropical flower each. On the hike we saw more monkeys, several blue jean ...
Monkeys!
It’s worth mentioning at this point that much of rural Costa Rica lives by the sun. At this latitude, sunrise is usually around 6 a.m. and sunset 6 p.m. People get up early and most activity finishes around sunset. People eat and then go to bed. ...
Arrival in Tortuguero
... via boat or plane. It has on one side the carribean sea, and on the other a series of long natuaral and man made canals.Tortuguero literally means 'turtle place' as a lot of turtes come to the coast to lay their eggs before returning to sea. We went for ...
All things turtle
- Early morning boat tour on canals of Tortuguero. Heard the loud howler monkeys. Saw some toucans and other cool birds, a large iguana perched up in a tree and a crocodile swimming through the water towards a ...
Weeks 9 & 10 - JAGUAR!!!
Weeks 9 and 10 together as its been so long since i´ve had internet access that I´ve forgotten most of what happened in these weeks now, so these are the highlights... SAW A JAGUAR!!! Me, Hayden and Lorraine had mile marker maintenance this week. ...