On my way to Tortuguero

This morning I left at 5:30 and this time I had the shuttle to myself 😊, at least during the first stage.

We went into the sunrise and the morning mist and after two hours we had breakfast for an hour in a restaurant with a beautiful flower garden and the bus was changed there.

The next stage was two hours along a gravel road through the banana plantations of Del Monte.

The bananas are treated like raw eggs here because they are intended for the US market and have to be exactly the right size and any flaws are an exclusion criterion. People from Nicaragua come here to pick and live in huts provided by Del Monte - so it somehow reminds me of asparagus...

The closer we got to the Caribbean Sea, the more pastureland there is. The pastures are fenced in with "living fences" , which I think is very cool.

I then completed the third stage by boat, it took me another 1,5 hours, so in sum it was quite a trip but since I started early I arrived around lunch 😋.Read more