“Lady Gaga”, “Obama” and “Bin Laden”: names of crocodiles that attract tourists in Costa Rica

The Tárcoles River, famous in Costa Rica for the number of crocodiles that inhabit its waters, attracts dozens of locals and tourists every day who pay around us$35 to see them up close.

“Madonna” “Lady Gaga” and others are some of the famous names chosen by tour guides to recognize the crocodiles in the Tárcole River, in Costa Rica.

The tour along the Tárcoles River lasts about an hour and a half in boats to see the crocodiles that are identified with the names of famous people, from politicians to artists, as is the case of the specimens that tour guides call Barack Obama, George Bush or Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt.

“It is a very safe, very comfortable tour, where we are going to see iguanas, crocodiles, birds; “We entered the mangroves,” Diego Vargas, administrator of the Cocodrilo Man Tours company, told Voz de America (VOA).

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