It rained quite hard during the night but we had blue skies again today. We had a full day of checking out the National Park. We started with an early morning 2 hour boat cruise then after breakfast a 2 1/2 hour hike and back for another 2 hour boat ride in the afternoon in search of birds, animals, flowers, etc. We saw many things here in nature that amazed us. We saw 3 species of monkeys. Howler, Spider, and Whitefaced. They pulled the boat close to the e...

We began our 3 day tour of Tortuguero National Park. We started with an early morning 5 hour bus trip and then a 1 hour boat trip to the canals along the Caribean on the North East coast of Costa Rica. We saw crocodiles basking in the sun of the river banks. The small country of Cost Rica has 112 volcanoes and 5 are active. We were lucky to see Volcano Irazu spewing steam this morning. Tortuguero is a very remote area with a series of rivers and canals. It is...