Tortuguero Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Nach unserem tollen Tag an der Faultier-Station fahren wir weiter nach Puerto Viejo ("der alte Hafen") im Sueden der costaricanischen Atlantikkueste. Hier haben wir 2 Naechte im Hotel Banana Azul gebucht, direkt zwischen Strand und Dschungel. Es ist ein richtig entspannender Ort, wo wir einfach mal ganz in Ruhe den Strand und die Wellen geniesse...

Spent a couple of days at Tortuguero which is a national park area on the caribbean coast of Costa Rica covering both inland rainforest and a marine area. Itīs most famous (and gets itīs name) for being a nesting area for different types of turtles such as leatherback , green and hawkshead. Unfortunately itīs not the right time of year to see th...

Time for some hardcore nature watching. Tortuguero is an extremely remote village on the east coast of Costa Rica. From the south (where we were coming from) its a three hour boat ride from Moin, itself 15 minutes by cab outside Limon. From the west its 3 hours by bus followed by two hours by boat. There is no town north of it. The town itself i...

Well Happy Christmas Everyone, during all of the festivities we have got a bit behind on the old travel blog so I am going to give a quick low down on the whole Carribean Coast of Costa Rica (We are in Panama now but will hopefully get that sorted in the next couple of days!). After Arenal Volcano we got a minibus to a banana plantation in the m...

After a nightīs rest I was up early again and this time travelled by bus and boat to Tortuguero National Park in the north-east of Costa Rica. The park is mainly jungle but stretches to the Carribean coast where thousands of nesting turtles come to lay their eggs. On my first night in Tortuguero a small group of us (all girls travelling alone) a...