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Woke up at 6:30 am this morning , ate a quick breakfast and got picked up for my transfer to tortuguero . Travelled for 7 hours via bus , stopped to eat then got to la pavona to catch a boat to tortuguero rana roja lodge . This place is beautiful. It's in the middle of the jungle. So far I seen a crocodile , iguana and some cool birds, I can hear the howler monkeys but have yet to see them here . Theres a swimming pool and restaurant and in order to get to the village I need to take a boat or kayak to get there . I fell asleep before to catch a boat to the village and have no idea how to get there or back If I want to go so right now I'm kinda stuck and tierd and hungry. There are crocodiles in the water but I assume they don't bother people much. Today was super hot outside and I'm bit all over my legs .
So I wandered around the area and haven't seen any animals yet in the lodge but I heard the monkeys,
the lodge called me a taxi Boat so I can go to the village. It was about 5:30 pm and sundown Is 6. Walked around feeling disoriented as it's such a different scene, carribean style, everyone is darker and more rasta Jamaican style. Got lost near where the locals live but everyone is nice and I wasn't really worried , there are hotels on the village and lots of shops as well as locals , since it was dark it was hard to find here to go ,
I knew I wanted to eat and stumbled upon a restaurant called buddah cafe , sat in the back right on the water and there I met this vet surgeon named Darrell, he was alone as well and lives in Florida, so him and I started chatting and we were doing opposite routes, I ate some pizza as I really didn't know what to eat . We exchanged e mails as if I'm ever in Florida I could go meet him . Conversation was great , he ate a crepe and had milkshakes and I had sangria and pizza. So healthy , you have to plan your money here as there are no banks or ATM around . He left as he had to go meet someone.
I stumbled in the dark getting myself completely lost on this small area back and forth looking exactly what I was , a lost foreigner ha ha, but I asked some locals that I need a taxi and they pointed the way, still un able to find my way since I thought it was on the wrong side the beach I ended up back at buddah cafe and asked the guy, so he called me a boat taxi that took me back to rana roja lodge .
It's 9 pm and all I hear is the animals talking outside all around me, like one of those sleeping cassettes minus the water. The owner here geraldo is amazing , crazy coincidence but he jumped on the bus i was on and sat next to me, I saw a card of his And it said rana roja , so I started talking to him saying I'm staying there. So random I meet the owner on the bus, so he went with me on the boat to the lodge, and helped me get settled in .
Breakfast is included which is great so I save money on that. Costa rica is expensive tho, especially meals . Victoria the Aussie was telling me she needs to leave cr so she can travel longer, so she was going back to nicaugua ( wrong spelling I know) since 100$ will last a week with food and accommodations and travel , sounds good to me.
So I'll step outside soon for a cigarette and hit the sack soon and wake up to a new day bright and early .
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