Samoa Lodge And Resort Tortuguero

... none of them seem to be in favor of the much disputed health plan of Obama, but I would not try to argue with them, although free health care for everybody ought to be a human right.<br><br>I woke up before my alarm clock to the distant sounds of the howler monkeys and the birds, and while I was trying to open my eyes, I could hear an employee going around knocking on our doors to ensure we would get up. There is no telephone, radio or TV in the rooms, so other means ...

... up almost immediately by a guy who works for the parking lot where we had our car. He usually shuttles clients between the parking area and the boat, but was not around the afternoon we arrived. He was also nice enough to give my car a jump when the battery was (not surprisingly) dead after two days of being parked.<br><br>We will definitely return to Tortuguero. I feel like we just got a small taste of what this charming village has to offer.

... of Manzanillo, that ended up to be a chaotic mess, due to a flat tire of Aileens bici! *haha* But a nice, spacious Pickup is never far away in Costa Rica and so we ended up in the back of one, the three of us and our 3 bicis all tied up! Soon after we got into a police razzia and we thought, this can't get any worse than it already is :( But fortunately the police officers didn't mind at all, us sitting in the back, and let us pass by with a smile :) The beach was right in front ...

At 6am after a quick coffee we left for a wildlife spotting cruise. We saw howler monkeys, spider monkeys, sloths, various birds like herons, kingfishers and tucans, fresh water turtles, caymans, iguanas, the Jesus christ lizard which walks on water and tiny little poison dart frogs. After chilling back on the hammocks we were taken to the village of Tortuguero which was on the same bit of land as the ...

... luukulta hakemassa ja täyttämässä lomakkeet (eli kuten myöhemmin selvisi leimaamassa itsemme ulos). Vielä kaksi kertaa kävimme näyttämässä ulosmenoleimojamme sisään -luukulla kunnes joku ymmärsi viittoa meidät jo Costa Rican suuntaan. Jälkeenpäin ajateltuna olivat tullimiehet oikeastaan hyvinkin mukavia ja pitkämielisiä. Jossain vaiheessa passeja tutkiessamme sillä tajusimme, että passeistamme puuttuu kokonaan sisääntuloleima Nicaraguaan ja tästä voisi ...

... did, an hour or so after we arrived, we all piled into a bus supplied by our hotel, Don Taco, and started the journey to Monteverde. Along the way we noticed a few stunning differences between CR and Nicaragua (well, all the countries we'd already seen)... the houses were nicer, the animals in the fields (not at the side of the road) looked healthier, etc... And when we stopped for lunch, bank break, etc... we got ...

... sixty days after the eggs are laid, but the season is long enough that, in one night, we were able to see eggs being laid and hatching. Well, we didn't actually see them hatch, but we did catch one baby turtle scuttling back to the sea. They usually go together; the first ones wait for the rest before they all climb out of the nest and journey en masse to the ocean, so this one must have been a straggler. It was tiny. The normal dimpling of the sand made for a ...