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La Baula Lodge Tortuguero

Tortuguero National Park Tortuguero, Province of Limon, 00000, Costa Rica

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Isolated

A travel blog entry by laura_costarica

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Another early start - an hour bus drive followed by 4 hour boat cruise. We headed north-west up man made canals and rivers, parallel to the coast. Our guide pointed out herons, hawks, kingfishers, spoonbills, pelicans, howler monkeys, jesus lizards (sadly it wasn't walking on water!), caimans and crocodiles.

Tortuguero is a very narrow …

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Tortuguero National Park

A travel blog entry by emelie78

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... and I felt really sad. But thinking about it, it is just Mother Nature after all. Not all of them can make it and are not supposed to, even though it seemed cruel just at that moment. That evening we went to be early since we had a very early date with Castor.

Saturday morning we got up at 5.10am and headed to Castors house to pick him up, since he lives just by the canal and that’s where his canoe is. The Tortuguero village is really just a strip of land between ...

Treasures in the Sand

A travel blog entry by lizzyness

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... br> During nesting and hatching season, no one is allowed on the beach after 6pm without a guide. The tourists are put in small groups and sent to watch the turtles lay eggs spaced out along the beach. We watched as a green turtle, almost 4 ft. long, paddled through the sand searching for an appropriate and safe spot to entrust her eggs. Where the sand met the brush, she started ...

The turtle place

A travel blog entry by out_of_here

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... floors, there are little stone decorations outside houses and restaurants of turtles and birds. As I type this I am sat less than 50 meters from what must be the only giant toucan and parrot statues in the whole country!

On arrival we got shown to our hostel by a friendly (but unofficial we later found out) tour guide, so no getting lost, always good. The hostel is really nice, pretty decent for the budget! and it has a nice green parrot! They had made a ...

Tortuguero

A travel blog entry by susranita

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... a cortado el agua hasta las 2pm para limpiar los depósitos (con lo que no podríamos ducharnos después) y además, tampoco teníamos luz porque estaban arreglando una avería en nuestra zona (con lo que entrar en la cabina sin ventilador, hubiera sido un suicidio). Así que optamos por desfallecer en las hamacas: dicho y hecho, nos quedamos grogi a pesar del calorazo, pues las hamacas colgaban bajo un techo de hojalata que se calentaba por momentos. Nos cocimos en nuestro ...