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- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
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- 3,773,057
- Population
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Tortuguero Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tortuguero, Costa Rica
Carlos the turtle
... made our way via bus, boat, and treking through deep forest the a brick wall of humidity to the most beautiful place on earth: Tortuguero Costa Rica! After waking up in time for the 5:30 am bus pickup time, which was a challenge in itself, I got picked up ...
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 ...
Just like Jurassic Park
... I can say is SPIDERS. EVERYWHERE. HUGE ONES. And for anyone that knows me that is a huge thing. Ever since Costa Rica/Tortuguero I have had spider nightmares taunting me and playing with me in my sleep. Tortuguero National Park is an amazing place ...
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. ...
Entering the Wonderful World of Tortuguero
... and watched the waves crash down until the sun had set and it was time to go home. It's hard to describe just how perfectly beautiful the setting/ambience/experience was, but for the second time in Costa Rica, a tear was brought to my eye. ...
Tourists of Tortuguero
There's one thing that we don't do well and it's waking up early, but today we had booked an early morning boat tour of Tortuguero National Park so we had no choice. At 6:00 a.m. we climbed into the awaiting boat with 8 other tourists and our guide ...
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 ...
Tortuguero aka Paradise
Waking up before 6 has become pretty customary to me here in Costa Rica, the sunrises before 6, the busses are already running by 5 and we have had to get up very early many times this trip! Yesterday we had to be ready before 6 so the bus could pick us ...
jungle living
stayed at a sweet jungle resort, only accessible by lightaircraft or a boat thru jungle canals, still getting mauled by mozzies. ...
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 ...
I am living National Geographic
... windows, just what an eco lodge would look like.After a lunch of freshly caught fish, we explored he quaint town of Tortuguero.We went to a charming resteraunt for pizza and the concensus was "who would have imagined a place like this here? ...
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 ...
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. ...