Wow! The Tortuguero National Park is a 300 square kilometre park protecting Northeastern Costa Rica's remaining rainforests, as well as the turtle nesting sites of its beaches. This morning I got up at 5:30am to do a canoe tour of the network of canals that ply the jungles of Tortuguero, allowing visitors to get up close to the animals without making noise to scare them away. Whatsmore, getting up so early means its cool but still light so the animals are out ...

Today my Central American backpacking adventure truly began. I woke early, got my rather nice included breakfast of pancakes and fruit and quickly hailed a taxi outside the hostel taking me to the TransCaribe bus terminal.In Costa Rica, just like Peru, the cities have no central bus terminals, rather the bus companies are scattered around the place. The TransCaribe, as the name suggests, serves the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.The journey to Tortuguero has been ...