Tortuguero National Park Travel Information

Accessible only by boat or plane, the coastal Tortuguero National Park is one of the world´s most important nesting sites for marine turtles.

The cumbersome creatures scramble ashore in the dead of night to bury their eggs along the same sprawling black-sand beach where they themselves were born. Weeks later, the hatchlings emerge and promptly stumble towards the ocean to take refuge from predators.