It is one of the prettiest boat trips in Central America: up the mangrove canals north from the Costa Rican port town of Limon to Tortuguero National Park.
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The tannin-stained water is smooth as brown glass and mirror-calm, broken only by flotillas of drifting water hyacinth and the occasional swirl of fish or a cayman's tail.