We have been coming to Costa Rica since 2004 and every trip I want to go to Tortuguero, but just can not fit it into our plans. This time I was determined to make it here. I used Costa Rica Expeditions the first time we came to the county and used them again for this little excursion. We were going to stay 3 nights but our kids surprised us with wanting to come to visit us here in Costa Rica so we had to cut the trip to 2 nights.
Costa Rica Expeditions picked us up right on time 6:20am at the courtyard. We traveled 3 hours to the river to get a boat to take us to Tortuguero. The only way to get to this area is either boat or by plane.
Once we got to the river we loaded on the boat for the 1 1/2 ride up the river to Tortuguero. One side note there are guys who help get the luggage from the vans to the boats, they work on tips. Please if you take this trip, tip these guys they work hard and out of 12 people we were they only ones who tipped.
