{"id":231,"date":"2008-12-30T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anirama.com\/costarica\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-11-06T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:05:00","slug":"to-tortuguero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2008\/12\/30\/to-tortuguero\/","title":{"rendered":"To Tortuguero!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another hour of bus travel down country roads from the banana plantation is Parismina, where we offloaded from the bus, said goodbye (for now) to Marcos, and boarded a boat for the hour and a half ride to Laguna Lodge. We&#8217;ll be at the lodge for the next two days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3187285882\/\" title=\"Parismina Locals by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3123\/3187285882_a88315870a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Parismina Locals\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parismina is the end of the road at the Caribbean Sea. From there, everyone travels by boat, like these locals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3186447223\/\" title=\"A View Out The Taxi Window by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3372\/3186447223_6e9c2d67d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"A View Out The Taxi Window\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out the window of the taxi, as we zipped up the Tortuguero River.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3187287538\/\" title=\"Out for a Spin by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3440\/3187287538_10d2e3310b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Out for a Spin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More locals, out for a spin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3187288214\/\" title=\"Princesa del Rio by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3375\/3187288214_d02c977882.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Princesa del Rio\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Princesa del Rio, chugging along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After dinner that night, I went on a frog hike. I didn&#8217;t find any, but I almost walked into this lady. She was hanging from the canopy at about knee height. If my flashlight didn&#8217;t catch her I would have walked right into it &#8211; and that would have kind of freaked me out. Her leg span is about 4&#8243;. After I took this shot I looked away for a moment, and when I turned back she was gone. So was I.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 281px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3187288298\/\" title=\"Big Ol' Spider by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3328\/3187288298_c1b6cb584c.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Big Ol' Spider\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Princesa del Cielo, hanging around.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another hour of bus travel down country roads from the banana plantation is Parismina, where we offloaded from the bus, said goodbye (for now) to Marcos, and boarded a boat for the hour and a half ride to Laguna Lodge. We&#8217;ll be at the lodge for the next two days. Parismina is the end of <a href='https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2008\/12\/30\/to-tortuguero\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,73],"tags":[88,92,110,115],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-dec-30-08","tag-boat","tag-fauna","tag-river","tag-spider","category-123-id","category-73-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}