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Port Limon Shore Excursions

Happy customers on their way to a Port Limon's shore excursion

Happy customers on their way to a Port Limon's shore excursion

Even though the number of tours in Costa Rica is big -due to such a big diversity of climates and life zones- the number of Port Limon's shore excursions is reduced due to the limited time customers have while at Port Limón.

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Usually cruise ships docking at Port Limon stay an average time of 10 hours.

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Among destinations at Port Limon that you may visit are: Tortuguero Canal, Veragua Rain Forest Adventure & Research Center, Bonita Beach, Jungle Breeze Rain Forest Canopy Tour (Zip Line), Chocolate Tour, City Tours, Cahuita National Park, and a couple more of options of high end tours like bird watching and ethnobotany, both lead by senior guides specialized in each field.

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Temperature in Port Limón es always warm or hot, humidity level is usually above 75%, currency is costarrican colón, and exchange is actually ¢545 colones per one USD. (as in November 14 2016).

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Well known for a long lasting democracy and a lack of army, Costa Rica stands for human rights, as an example, as soon as you step in Costa Rica (in our case in Port Limón) you have the same rights as any costarrican, excepting vote, for that you must apply for a costarrican citizenship, then you can vote.

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Ask our sales representative, for information among our tours in Port Limon.

*TIP:
What to bring in a Limón rain forest tour:

A rain forest cup

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Calathea is a genus part of Marantheaceae family, related to bananas and heliconias, marks a difference the presence of a pulvinus connecting the leaf with the stem. This pulvinus, aloud a broader range of movement so the leaf acquires a bigger amount of sunlight through out the day.

This was the original source of material for wrapping a pre-columbian meal known as Tamal, it was also used for covering dead bodies as part of a funerary ritual of some ethnic groups, now days tamales are wrapped with banana leaves because they are more abundant.

Many species in this genus present a whitish to silvery pubescence under the leaf, no known yet by science it such pubescence has any function serving the plant.

In the sequence of images shows how breaking the central vein of the leaf, then this folds in itself and ready, we have a cup in order to pick up water from a spring or creek.

Heliconias

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Over 200 species of Heliconia in Central and South America, only three are found outside this region, in Solomon Islands and somewhere in Africa, and in this places those heliconias are not colorful as in the big majority found in tropical Americas, but green, and this is because in these places there are no hummingbirds, so Heliconias are bat pollinated, and bats need no colors in order to find their target.

All this profusion of color in what we think is a flower really comes from modified leaves also known as bracts, this modification of leaves into colorful and hard-tissue apparatus, plays the same function as in petals in roses, which is to advertise like in a billboard: "Please Mr Hummingbird come to drink nectar so I´l be pollinated". Such strategy may be related to the heavy rain that quickly destroys petals in this environment, all these bracts are long lasting, and if you observe carefully, you will probably find the tiny cream-colored tiny flowers hidden inside de bract.

Ready for a heliconia related shore excursion in Port Limón?

Yellow Poui (Tabeuia ochracea).

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Yellow poui (Tabeuia ochracea).
Common names: Ipê, Poui, trumpet trees and pau d'arco.

A gorgeous blooming tree with medicinal properties

This is probably one of the most gorgeous trees when blooming around the World.

Part of Bignoniaceae family, which is a family that joins tropical trees and woody vines with very beautiful flowers and interesting woody fruits.

This tree blooms at the end of the dry season and produces dense clusters of yellow flowers while has dropped its leaves making the view of flowers even more impressive.

Its bark contains Lapachol, an important ingredient in naturalistic medicine that works as expectorant, and as topical antibiotic. Lapachol has also shown to have anti corcenogic activity in laboratories. (Pablo Sanchez, personnal comunication)

It’s more common to observe this tress blooming on the pacific slope of Costa Rica but there are also present on the Caribbean slope.

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