Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching
Before visiting Tortuguero, I associated the area with turtles. Just turtles. All I wanted was to see a turtle, and so when, on my second night, I saw four nesting green sea turtles, I thought to myself, “Wow. I’ve seen the turtles, but I have four days left. Now what?”
I needn’t have worried. Though Tortuguero is known and even named for its nesting turtle populations, this northern Caribbean town has so much more to offer. I found myself enchanted by the area’s winding canals, especially the mysterious Cano Palma, where the water is so black …
Location: Northern Caribbean, Recent Trips, Tortuguero »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Safari Float, Sport Fishing, Turtle Tours »
I don’t know what it is about traveling that saps every, last ounce of energy from my body, but it does. I just woke up from a four-hour nap, and this is coming from someone who “doesn’t take naps.” Let me explain.
Michael from Turtle Beach Lodge picked me up at 5:20 this morning. The early pickup was part and parcel of our trip to Tortuguero, a sleepy village on Costa Rica’s northeastern coast. Tortuguero is also the name of the surrounding national park, which hosts four of Costa Rica’s sea turtle species: leatherback, hawksbill, loggerhead …
Location: Northern Caribbean, Tortuguero »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Safari Float »
We traveled by bus from the Pacific to the southern Caribbean coast in just under nine hours. Our destinations were Bocas del Toro, Panama and Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. I had heard that both of these locations are big party towns, but truly had no idea what to expect. As a PADI certified advanced diver, I was looking forward to diving the Caribbean’s crystal clear waters – and to earning my Rescue Diver status, the next rung on the scuba certification ladder.
Since my friend Kim and I had never ventured south of Costa Rica, Panama …
Location: Puerto Viejo, Recent Trips, Southern Caribbean »
Activities: Bird & Wildlife Watching, Boating, Caribbean Beaches, Day Spas, Dolphin & Whale Watching, National Parks & Reserves, Scuba Diving and Snorkeling, Sunsets »
