Yesterday, our favorite taxi driver from Monteverde drove us four hours away to a coastal town called Ostional so we could witness the monthly arribada of Olive Ridley turtles. We had been following the Ostional Guides’ Facebook page to find out when exactly this would start and arranged with the taxi driver to take us the day after it began. (Let’s just spend a second to appreciate that fact – a normal, everyday taxi driver that drove us to our favorite taco joints and bakeries for the weeks we were in Monteverde also readily agreed to drive us to a town four hours away. This is a common thing here and it is so. great. Personalized shuttle service, basically.)

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