This weekend my group and I headed out on our first solo excursion. We planned a trip to Tortuguero, a beautiful National Park in the northeast of Costa Rica, on the Caribbean Coast. We met up at 7:30 on Thursday morning, and a taxi, two buses, a boat ride, and more or less 6 hours later, we arrived in Tortuguero about 2:00 in the afternoon. Although our travel there was exhausting, it was cheap, only about $14.00 a piece round trip. Another student, Gina, got us a great package deal at a little hotel called Casa Marbella. We payed $60.00 each for two nights, two breakfasts, and two tours of the park. Que bueno!! Tortuguero Village is a tiny little peninsula, with a river canal on one side, and the Caribbean Sea on the other. In
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