A tropical red sun is setting over Caño Palma as we head out for our evening paddle in Costa Rica’s Tortuguero National Park.

Tortuguero National Park sits tucked away in the Limón province in the northeastern pocket of the Caribbean coast and is only accessible via plane or boat (though boat is the most common).

Here lies Tortuguero National Park in the province of Limón, where its purpose is to protect the population of green turtles. In 1970 it was officially proclaimed a national park and has become a ...

but we flew back The friendly and tightly knit town of Tortuguero sits within Tortuguero National Park on the thin stretch of land dividing a vast lagoon from the Caribbean Sea, the musical and ...

Hanging from one arm, a three-toed sloth is asleep in a tree in Tortuguero National Park, on the north-east coast of Costa Rica. ‘It was likely climbing higher,’ says our guide, ‘then nodded ...

Karla Taylor, a guide with 16 years of experience specializing in the Tortuguero area and its eponymous national park, said that her family has been in the town since it was founded in the 1930s.

2009). In this paper, we focus on tourist perceptions of turtle tours in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, home to Tortuguero National Park (TNP; est. 1975) and among the oldest turtle tour systems in the world ...