Jungle Tarpon Lodge
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To Totuguero National Park
... cocktail and freezing hand towel. Having written to the Lodge explaining it is our wedding anniversary and S's 40th (usually works) requesting a suite we were disappointed to be allocated a standard lodge room with 3 single beds! We were able to swop for a double! We went off a wonder to see the river from in front of our room, and 50 yards behind our pool and restaurant the caribbean sea. Nice quiet beech. Lunch was served ...
Planes,Trains,&Automobiles..or..Taxi, Bus,& Lancha
... village is famed for its nesting sea turtles that return to the beautiful beaches here each year. We arrived just in time for mass green turtle nesting! The area tourism has raised awareness to protect the turtles from poaching although we later found ourselves on a bus in southeastern Costa Rica where a man was shamelessly selling bags of huevos de tortuga (turtle eggs to eat) on board. Luke was tempted to buy a bag of the turtle ...
I dream of The Turtle Place
... are already in the laying stage and thus can be visited (the turtles are too sensitive to disturbance before this stage).
Seeing the turtles nesting was the highlight. We spent our remaining time taking walks through the jungle and the beach, where we could see the turtle tracks from the nights before leading right up to their nests. We took a canoe tour through the dense, winding jungle canals, and spotted caiman and “Jesus Christ ...
Tortuguero
... met z'n drieën een restaurant beginnen en zijn erg druk met het maken van een menukaart en hoe ze het restaurant gaan laten slagen. Ze vermaken zich erg goed. Natuurlijk trekken ze elkaar af en toe de haren uit het hoofd maar eerlijk gezegd valt dit erg mee. Ze zijn natuurlijk erg op elkaar aangewezen en dat gaat gelukkig meestal heel goed. Wel jammer dat ze weinig met lokale kinderen spelen maar dat durven ze niet zo goed. Alhoewel Tim als het gevraagd wordt door ...
Carlos the turtle
... for breakfast on our way over. After eating, Carlos comes over and gets everyone's attention... He says "hey guys... Umm I have some bad news". Those are kind of words you never want to hear when your in another country in the middle of nowhere. But he proceeds to tell us that all of the taxi drivers are on strike in the middle of the road about 3 miles down. So we hang out for about an hour trying to figure out what we are going to do, because the Australians, and the ...
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