Léon- Surfing turtle lodge
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After two chicken buses, two mini-vans, a taxi, a boat and a hike in the dark we made it to Surfing Turtle Lodge.
A really nice hostel next to the beach, very expensive though - a cabana for two cost 50 dollars / night and a dorm for 16 people 12 dollars / night per person. Even the food was super expensive but it was nice to wake up in the morning and go for a swim in the ocean and every afternoon the hostel organized a volleyball tournament. Fun!
Surfing turtle lodge hostel is known for saving baby turtles. It's very common that the locals steal turtle eggs and sell them to restaurants which is illegal. The hostel buys the eggs from the locals or try to find them first. They bury the eggs in a safe place where they can hatch without dogs or locals trying to eat them.
This night one of the staff members working at the hostel brings us to the beach and we all get to see a big beautiful mama turtle lay egg in the sand and then make her way back to the sea. We're all very happy that we're going to save the baby turtles. Though, after a while we realize that the hostel won't buy the eggs and the local guy runs away with a full bag of turtle eggs. That was very upsetting and we decided to leave the next day, we don't want to support stealing turtle eggs!!
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Off to Leon to meet up with Toby, Clint and Jarred...
