Day 10 and we were up with the sparrows, armed with a boxed breakfast, ready for the long journey over to the Caribbean coast, with Tortuguero the destination. It’s always interesting seeing how the country changes from one coast to the next, whilst driving up and over the central spine of mountains. In Costa Rica, all the different altitudes and slopes creates lots of different habitats and micro-climates, meaning there are different pockets of wildlife to be seen, with each area bringing their own speciality species, adding to the biodiversity.
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We were now on day 4 of our tour of Costa Rica, and we were on the road again, this time down the pacific coast to our next hotel, Crystal Ballena, a beautiful hotel near Uvita with great birding. We broke up the journey with a stop at Quepos for lunch and a brief spell on the beaches of Manuel Antonio.
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