Welcome to Rio Tarcoles, where tourists stop to view these ancient dinosaurs.
I've heard a few stories about this place, one being that locals sometimes toss live chickens off the bridge to put on a "show". I also read somewhere that a drunk man was bet $20 to swim across the river...and he did, but didn't quite make it.
If you are at all amazed by crocodiles, this place is crazy cool. I've been here a couple of times and still get excited by the number of crocs there are. Once in awhile you'll see a stork slowly walk up to a croc, almost as if he's doing a dare, and the croc will slowly swim towards him. You get your camera ready waiting for something to go down. The stork usually smartens up and flys off though.
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"Well property had issues 1 the shower made a horrible noise they came and closed off the foot wash the washer if you started it for a 20 min cycle it ran for 1 hours and when it spun it sounded like it was Going to leave the room and it would not drain the next thing was the light in the small bath had lots of water dripping from it they came and cut a hole out in the ceiling left a mess on the floor and then all the lights in that room started flickering the Sheetrock had nasty mold On it also....

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