Tortuga Bay Resort

... cave on one of the 2000 limestone outcrops in the Ha Long Bay. As we approached the island I thought it looked like Tortuga from Pirates of the Caribbean! I'm not sure what the cave was called officially, but i'm pretty certain our guide said it ...

... today for the first day in a few. It seems that my immune system was starting to respond better to whatever allergy I had. Tortuga Bay was okay. The ocean there is fantastic. It appears crystal clear and not murky at all really. A perfect light shade of ...

... at the hotel, bottled water - $6 for two bottles a day, nightclub - we never got there!, miscellaneous items - steelband CD - $20, Tortuga Rumcakes - $6 and up, Rum balls - $5 and up.    Recap of some of the places we visited: Store Gronne ...

... settled, a night watch guard, with flashlight in hand, came up to say something muy rapido in Spanish. I could only grasp tortuga, but immediately understood what he meant and sprang out of the hammock to follow him. Gina quickly stopped and said she ...

... Here it is, from our little boat. There's some fantastic wildlife about. We were cruising along from bay-to-bay when Carmello shouted "Tortuga!" and started to circle closer and closer in to give us the most fantastic view of a sea turtle ...

... only a quarter of a tank of petrol to travel 300km as it was nearly all downhill. We stopped briefly for lunch at Playa Tortuga, which was our first view of the pacific since Arica in northern Chile. It was a basic looking fishing village around a desert ...

... ) Another early start after too much attempted sleep, another breakfast with the children, then out to walk to the beaches at Bahia Tortuga. Unable to buy bread on the way, but find the path and proceed to the far side of the same rift which forms the ...