Turtle Watching Night Tour: Unique Sea Turtle Observation in Costa Rica

Costa Rica stands as the world’s premier location for observing sea turtles! You can spot every turtle species, barring one, in Costa Rica. North of the Leatherback Turtle National Park, three species could be yours to sight! Indeed, few wildlife encounters can rival this in intimacy.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Las Baulas National Marine Park - At 5:45pm you will meet our naturalist expert turtle guide at designated pick up location or hotel, and our transportation will take you to the turtle beach about 40minutes north of Tamarindo.
    During this experience the guide will be sharing much information about the turtles, reproduction , behavior, diets and…
What's Included
  • Flashlights
  • Bottled water
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
Location
Discover Tamarindo Travel Agency
Nos encontraremos en la puerta de la casa verde
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Tracy_r
May 11, 2024
Amazing Turtle Adventure - What an amazing experience with our guide, Moses. We saw tiny turtle hatchlings make their way from their nests to the ocean, and saw a momma turtle on the beach. It was a wonderful experience for our family of eight!
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Hala
May 8, 2024
Cool experience - Great experience. Just understand that nature is nature and you pay for the experience not for the guarantee. We got lucky and say about 4 turtles but since it was the end of the season, none of them laid eggs. Still really cool to see. Learned a lot on the ride there—guide was very knowledgeable and cared about the turtles and the environment which we really appreciated!
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Alexis_w
Apr 23, 2024
Knowledgeable and conscientious guide for our fun and unique turtle viewing experience - Our guide, Moses, was very knowledgeable and conscientious about not disturbing the wildlife. It was apparently a 'slow' night for turtle viewing, but Moses scouted for a long time in order to maximize our potential viewing and give us the best possible experience.
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Jennifer_f
Apr 21, 2024
Great night tour - We loved this tour! We got to both hatchling racing for the water and a momma looking to lay a clutch. Christian was a great guide, very informative and answered all our questions. Highly recommended!
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Merel_k
Apr 19, 2024
A pure nature experience - A very intimate and special experience. The atmosphere is very relaxed and the guide was super passionate and knowledgeable.
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Paul_e
Apr 17, 2024
Our guide was very... - Our guide was very knowledgeable and was able to find some baby turtles for us to witness travelling to the ocean.
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Christine_b
Apr 15, 2024
Once in a lifetime experience. Not to be missed! - Amazing- once in a lifetime experience. Our guide, Verny, was awesome. So knowledgeable. His passion for the turtles and genuine love for them was more than evident. The whole experience was the highlight of our trip to Costa Rica. We witnessed 6 females coming up to nest and even assisted babies to the shoreline walking with red lights in front of them to guide them…of course NO touching!!! Verny guided us through the entire experience, making absolute sure we respected the animals, keeping our distance, remaining absolutely quiet, shuffling our feet and allowing no lights other than Red lights so as not to disturb the mothers as the searched for adequate nesting places. It’s was absolutely amazing.
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James_b
Apr 9, 2024
Amazing experience - Amazing experience. Our guide was a lot more respectful and informative than the other groups around. His patience and knowledge paid off as other groups left the beach and we stayed then 10 minutes later found baby turtles hatching and making their way to sea! All around amazing.
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Escape49463621463
Apr 7, 2024
Great nature experience, turtles in their natural environment! - We had a great guide in Moisés. He was very committed to showing us the most turtles. And it worked out; we saw a mother as well as babies on another beach. We learned a lot about the turtles! Great and thank you!
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Sacha_k
Apr 8, 2024
We saw baby turtles. - After being picked up in Tamarindo we stayed 50mns in the bus to reach the beach parking. From there we walked 15 minutes to get to the beach where we followed our guide who was the only one who had an infra red light, the only light allowed there to avoid disturbing the turtles. Then our group was told not to move and to wait for news in the dark. After a while, another group found some baby turtles crossing the beach to get to the ocean. After we were allowed to move, we could see them too and everyone was around these little things struggling in the sand to reach their destination. Finally, we waited some more, looking at the stars hoping to see a mother turtle coming, but with all the kids playing on the beach, nothing happened.
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