Check out nice and smooth. We will return to this hotel at the end of our trip. A pool would make it perfect! Very charming. Lovely staff. Today we head to
Laguna Lodge/Tortuguero. Our pick up is 6:15 am. Our driver is Victor and our guide is Judy. We pick up others. Costa Rica is known for bananas, pineapple, and coffee. We drive past some nice scenery-Yellow (from sulfur deposits) volcanic Rio Sucio, Braulio Carrillo National Park.
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| Our A/C bus transfer |
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Picking up others
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| Rio Sucio |
Stop for
breakfast at
Selva Tropical Restaurant. We have scrambled eggs, sausages which are really hot dog slices in Campbell's beans sauce, beans, mantioch. Juice and coffee. Fresh fruit-watermelon, bananas, guava. Attached to the restaurant is a butterfly garden that we walk through.
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Breakfast
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Back on the road driving through banana plantations. We finally arrive at the dock,
Cano Blanco. Now we take a
boat to
Laguna Lodge passing the
Tortuguero canals. Spot caiman, turtle, white egret. Could hear howler monkeys.
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Arriving at the dock
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Our boats
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| Turtle |
Upon arrival
Laguna Lodge we are greeted with a welcome drink and a cold towel. Very refreshing. We are given room 2 which is fine. No bathtub-a shower. No A/C-a fan. It is hot and sunny.
Lunch is at the lodge. There's a salad bar, chicken, potatoes, steamed vegetables of carrots/green beans/cauliflower. Spent some time in the pool. Lovely. At the lodge's gift shop I bought a T shirt and a postcard for 8260.00 colones.
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| Our room |
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Shower
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Lunch
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At 3:00 pm we meet to take a
boat ride to Tortuguero town. Walked on the beach over to the
Turtle Conservation Center. I bought a few postcards. Walked back to town where I stopped at Paraiso Gift Shop to get a wooden turtle puzzle for my grandson and a turtle T shirt for him.
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| Paraiso Shop-Tortuguero town |
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| Arriving back to our lodge |
Back at the lodge some pool time, walk to the beach where we saw a crab. Then it's back to our room to shower and dress for dinner at 7:00 pm.
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Beach
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| Crab |
Dinner is sea bass. Mine is lightly breaded while Richard has his grilled. Mashed potatoes, carrots and green beans. Salad bar. Lemonade was so good. Dessert-coconut flan. Everything was wonderful. I don't know why I have no pictures of dinner!
A great day but tomorrow we will really explore the wildlife of Tortuguero National Park via boat.
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