Tortuguero, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Our Adventures in the Mini-Amazon
Nov 5, 2007 (33 photos)

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 ...

Tortuguero
Apr 7, 2007

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Turtle Beach Lodge
Jan 1, 2005 (33 photos)

... 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 at ...

The mini-Amazon
Oct 4, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 eggs.  ...

Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast
Mar 13, 2008 (15 photos)

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Tortugera National Park
Mar 24, 2006 (65 photos)

... 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 hesitation.........

Tortuguero or not to-rtoguero that is the question
Aug 18, 2007 (2 photos)

... what 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
Apr 29, 2009 (19 photos)

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Day 4: Boat Trip to Tortuguero
Mar 9, 2005 (7 photos)

... 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- Sea Turtle Watching
Aug 23, 2009 (88 photos)

... 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 eggs. ...

Dia 15. Tortuguero
Sep 5, 2009

... 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 noche hacer ...

3day/2night trip to Tortuguero to see the turtles
Aug 24, 2008 (38 photos)

... 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 Rica ...

Dia 14. Bahia Drake - Tortuguero
Sep 4, 2009

*** 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 (casamarbella. ...

Running aground and the crocs
Mar 30, 2009

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
Nov 3, 2009 (21 photos)

... 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
Apr 27, 2007

... 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 colour.

Getting to Tortuguero
May 21, 2008 (15 photos)

It seems 5 and 6 am will be our normal times in Costa Rica. The sun is well out at 5am and also the rain starts daily at 2/3pm...and its no joke rain, its the real tropical stuff! If you check on the map, the distance from Cahuita to Tortuguero is not ...

Tortuguero
Oct 6, 2008 (7 photos)

...   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 seem ...

Tortuguero National Park "Mini amazon"
Mar 29, 2009

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
Apr 8, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 look ...

Tortuguero
Apr 1, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 trip.

Tortuguero N.P. - Tiere & Pflanzen ohne Ende
Mar 5, 2008

... der Tierwelt, auch wenn es nicht auf jedem Ausflug gleich viel zu beobachten gibt. (Man merkt aber erst "zurueck in der Zivilisation" wie viel man in Tortuguero bzw. Costa Rica zu sehen kriegt!) Auf den Morgentouren waren wir tendenziell "erfolgreicher".

Land of the turtles
Aug 19, 2007 (9 photos)

After our long journey to Tortuguero, we woke up the next morning to find a really cute little village between the river and the sea. First thing, we made reservations for our turtle tour, where we would he head down to the beach at night to see green sea ...

Face to face with alligators
Jan 2, 2007 (21 photos)

Tortugero National Park is crisscrossed by a natural network of navigable waterways and is one of the most biologically diverse areas of Costa Rica. It is best known for being one of the most important nesting sites for the pacific green turtle in the ...

Turtle Dent
Jul 4, 2005

... , once again with just the 2 of us in the boat, told me he lived in Barra Del Colorado, (which is the northernmost part of Costa Rica on the Caribbean side, bordering Nicaragua), and if I would go with him to drop the boat off that he would take me to his ...

Tortuguero...turtles and wildlife
Sep 15, 2007 (35 photos)

... a machete is an all purpose tool that everyone uses in Central and South America.  Last of all, September 15th is Costa Rica´s independence and we got to witness a parade that took place the night before.  All the children and their parents ...

Adventures in Tortuguero - one of my favourites
Nov 15, 2009

... have it, it will bring back nice memories, and when Al is annoying me, I will recite spanish bible readings to him!!! Anyway, Tortuguero is only accesibleby the occasional flight (sadly) and boat, there are no roads, and it is one of the most peaceful and ...

Tortugero Parque Nacional
Apr 3, 2009 (11 photos)

So unfortunately the pictures I took from Isla de Ometepe are not being uploaded to the blog. As of right now their are only two pictures showing, I hope to resolve the issue soon. After a quick night in San Jose, I left early in the morning on a bus ...

up to see the turtles!!
Aug 5, 2008

... into the rain forest. Once we got to PUerto Limon we had to take a five our boat ride through a canal to get to Tortuguero. We did a canal tour the next morning and saw all sorts of wildlife: crocs, caimans (little tings that look like crocs), toucans, ...

Pay your dues at the right time or else
May 19, 2009

We´ve come out to the carribean side for some serious wildlife action. This national park (another one) is a serious of river canals and tributaries which you can explore by canoe or on foot if you don´t mind the snakes. The town can only be accessed by ...