Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
Tortuguero Slideshow
Top Hotels in Tortuguero
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La Baula Lodge Tortuguero
15 reviews -
Samoa Lodge And Resort Tortuguero
25 reviews -
Albergue la Jungla Tortuguero
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Hotel Ilan-Ilan Tortuguero
13 reviews -
Jungle Tarpon Lodge Tortuguero
4 reviews
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Jungle Lodge Tortuguero
20 reviews
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Princess On The River Tortuguero
4 reviews
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Tortuga Lodge Tortuguero
136 reviews -
Manatus Hotel Tortuguero
69 reviews
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Hotel Rio Palmas Tortuguero
10 reviews
Tortuguero
Travel Blogs from Tortuguero, Costa Rica
The Stresses of Caribbean life
This is a top pick! 21st From Leon we got a taxi to the bus station and then a direct minibus to Managua (La UCA) and then another taxi to the airport for our holidays. Its a nice big new airport and all the motorway is pretty good and very US looking ...
Our Adventures in the Mini-Amazon
This is a top pick! DON'T TIP THE BOAT My mom and I have a jam-packed week ahead of us, but our first stop was Costa Rica's mini-Amazon: Tortuguero. We decided to play tourists for a week and take a tour. Gerardo was our friendly guide for the two days we were ...
This is a top pick! 
Turtle Beach Lodge
This is a top pick! ... was actually sunny out, which I guess is rare, and we could see the top of the dormant volcanoes. We stopped for a great costa rican breakfast along the way at an outdoor cafe. Traditional costa rican grub consist of rice and black beans, which is eaten ...
The mini-Amazon
... the jungle and spotted a crocodile swimming across the river in front of us with it's eyes shining! A good introduction! Tortuguero is a small town which serves as a base for people who want to see the Green sea turtles laying their ...
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... them out on the edge of town & hoping the jaguars came & got them - apparently happens quite a lot & others at Cabins Tortuguero had seen their tracks on the beach. Ear plugs were not an option as had to hear my early alarm call - off on a 3 ...
Tortugera National Park
... wife said to the husband, "Look over there its a polkadotted nitwit". I think she had enough at this point of his constant, look at this, look at that. I would rate this trip as the best place to visit in Costa Rica, without ...
Tortuguero or not to-rtoguero that is the question
... a plantain was. After a long ride through a dark canal during which we encountered several crocodiles, we finally arrived to Tortuguero. It´s a cute little village accessible only by boat through the surrounding river and canals or by plane. We were ...
Tortuguero
jungle n beach
This is great, we love being in the jungle. The drive over the hills from san jose was a bit slow, there was a landslide(not a big one), and they closed half the road, because of a bit of mud on it. Once we got in the boat it was really good. We saw ...
Day 4: Boat Trip to Tortuguero
... legs a bit by playing an impromptu game of frisbee, and playing with the little dogs there. Dogs are literally everywhere in Costa Rica, but strays are rare; most belong to owners of hotels, restaurants, shops, and pretty much anyone else. We arrived ...
Tortuguero
Natuerlich bin ich vor Aufregung schon wieder viel zu frueh wach und verlasse meinen 7 Dollar Bretterverschlag um im Sonnenaufgang noch nen kleinen Spaziergang am Karibikstrand zu unternehmen.Um 6 Uhr holt mich Ricardo dann zur am Vortag gebuchten ...
Tortugeuro Adventure
... her a rose at roadside florist at the end of the day. She almost cried. One of the best days I've had here in Costa Rica. This weekend, we made a trip with three other volunteers to Tortuguero National Park, which is on the Eastern side of the country ...
Butterflies, Bananas and Rain Forest
Leaving San Jose behind, we drove through Braulio Carrillo National Park, named for Costa Rica's third president, Braulio Carillo Colina. Some of the drive was not unlike Cape Breton Island's Highlands National Park, except that Cape Breton's hills ...
Tortuguero- Sea Turtle Watching
... to hear this after passing through Mexico to Nicaragua. Mom had noted she wanted to see the Sea Turtles while she was in Costa Rica and it just happens to be the time when the turtles were arriving on the beaches for their seasonal laying of the ...
A week of travelling
... , and we walked around the town for a while. The neighbourhood is poor and known as being one of the more violent parts of Costa Rica. Our taxi driver actually came pretty close to ditching us on the side of the road when he realized where we were ...
Dia 15. Tortuguero
... al Cerro Tortugero (2h). Es por selva y tiene muy buenas vistas. Por la tarde visita por los senderos del Parque Nacional de Tortuguero y paseo por el pueblo. Tambien está la opción de alquilar unos Kayacks para ir por los canales. Por la ...
Turtles by moonlight...can you top that?
... going to get a on a guided trip to Tortuguero National Park the next morning. This is a canal along the northeast coast of Costa Rica where sea turtles come to nest. Turned out we were going to be there during the Green Sea turtle nesting season, so ...
3day/2night trip to Tortuguero to see the turtles
... which is situated on the east coast of Costa Rica. Now unlike Punta Leona, where we stayed the previous week, Tortuguero is on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica and as such it is the Atlantic Ocean that hits it shoreline not the Pacific Ocean. Due to Costa ...
Dia 14. Bahia Drake - Tortuguero
*** PLANING *** Check-out en el hotel y salida en AquaTaxi hasta Sierpe. Despúes taxi al areopuerto de Palmar Sur y avioneta hasta Tortugero. Llegada a las cabinas y aprovechar la tarde para hacer alguna actividad. Hotel: Casa Marbella ...
Corn Islands
Hummm!! Que dire! Un paradis des Caraibes! On a passé 1 semaine ici, mais honnetement, on en a rien vu! Petite ile de 6 km avec des cabanes en bamboo directement sur la plage et de la bière à 1$! Ca vous donne une idée de la vibe de la place! On ...
Running aground and the crocs
The boat trip back to Limon was fast and turned out to be quite the adventure. Zooming through the various rivers having near run ins with birds as they tried to take off as fast as possible to get out of our way and spotting lots of caymans and ...
Very humid tropical rainforest
... that I was not going to stay any longer. However, from what I could see, San Jose certainly gave the impression of Costa Rica being a wealthier country than Guatemala - they even had ordinary busses servicing the city - did not see a single chicken bus. ...
Boat Trip to Tortuguero
... it while took some great photos. Lots of brighlty coloured birds I have yet to identify, but apparently there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of species in Costa Rica of birds alone...so maybe I will stick with describing them by size and ...
Tortuguero-Amazonul Costa Ricai
Am plecat la 10 mai departe spre Tortuguero,pe coasta caraibiana,loc vestit pentru izolarea in care se afla.Locul e foarte salbatic,e Amazonul Americii Centrale.Evident nu e accesibil cu masina. am strabatut plantatii dense de banane pe un drum ...
Tortuguero
... We're on the tour with a couple my parents' age from Texas, and for the first leg of the tour in Tortuguero we're also with a (literal) boatload of other tourists, many of them from Spain. There's one particularly obnoxious couple that can't ...
Tortuguero National Park "Mini amazon"
Today we traveled to Tortuguero National Park on the northern Caribbean coast. Its impossible to drive here so once we arrived in Limon we hopped into a motorized canoe through the jigsaw of canals deep into the national park. With Willis our, ...
La Tortuga Feliz
... the local inhabitants. Ecotourism...The most famous and therefore the touristy area for the observation of turtles in Costa Rica, Tortuguero, cannot handle the number of tourists anymore. The area is getting polluted etc. Travel agencies therefore ...
Tortuguero
... species, including toucans, different species of monkeys, poison dart frogs and if you're really lucky even a jaguar or a manatee. I travelled by boat over the canals from Puerto Limon to Tortuguero, which took me about 2,5 hours. It is a very scenic ...