Tortuguero and Cabinas Miss Miriam #2 by motor boat
The Costa Rican Atlantic coast is certainly less visited than that of the Pacific probably for all sorts of reasons but beginning with the geographic fact that it is somewhat less accessible. I soon found it more to my own liking and that is probably because of the very starting point of it indeed being less visited.
We set off to travel the length of that Atlantic coast (well almost the length, Barra del Colorado is actually even more inaccessibly to the north just before the Nicaraguan border) heading for our first port of call in Tortuguero. Our entry to this part of the world had an initial very favourable impact due to the unconventionality of another form of Costa Rican transport: motor boat along the river from Cariari.
Tortuguero is a little gem in the ecological cornucopia that is Costa Rica and endeared itself to me precisely because of its inaccessibility by car or bus. For good old fashioned urbanites the entrance to the enclave is entertaining and exciting. The motorised launch shoots you right into the centre of the community. Tortuguero most certainly qualifies as a vacation idyll that allows you to get away from it all. Sure there are tourists but at times I felt almost as if I wasn’t one which is quite an exceptional knack for a place, which clearly relies heavily on tourism, to engender.
We can thoroughly recommend a stay at Cabinas Miss Miriam number 2 (the number 2 seemed to be important although we never actually saw a number 1) where the owners personified the kindly laidbackness of the community and the following video provides a little visual taster.
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