Pachira

... I was still surprised, when it was a full sized modern bus with plenty of other people that picked me up. Apparently, Pachira Lodge sell these packages that include transportation to and from the hotel, and we were well around 35 people, when we finally ...

... we went through canals for about an hour and a half to the small town of Tortuguero and to our hotel.  We stayed at the Pachira Lodge-really nice-they have small cabins that are split into a few hotel rooms each and each cabin is on a little path surrounded ...

... windy all the time.  The smell of the jungle mixed with the salt air blowing in from the sea.  The food at Pachira lodge was top notch and you knew the fish was fresh.  The open air cabins were unique.  The screen windows were covered ...

So off to the rivers & backwaters of Tortuguero National park. There are no roads & you can only go on a package tour via a boat transfer. So we were kind of expecting a protracted transfer routine but not necessarily on a 50 seater coach with a load of ...

Got up at 5 AM, snacks at 5:30 and in the boats at 6 AM. Took us on a canal tour to see the animals when they were most active. We saw a caimen (small alligator), howler, spider and cacuchin monkeys, herons and other birds and a blue-green lizard with ...