When we last left our Costa Rican adventure, our goal was to venture to Tortuguero to see a tortuga feliz (happy sea turtle). Instead, we witnessed much more. Parque Nacional Tortuguero protects the nesting beach for green, leatherback and hawksbill turtles. It´s the most important green turtle hatchery in not only the Caribbean, but the entire Western Hemisphere - and and we were just in time for the end of nesting season. Tortuguero is only accessible by boat so Trev and I left the big city to take two buses and a two-hour boat ride through canals that snake through what they call the ¨mini Amazon¨. It reminded us of a certain theme park jungle cruise (same sweet boat), only through an actual jungle with real crocodiles, flamingos, turtles, blue and yellow butterflies, cows and horses
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