Sea turtles
Beaches where sea turtles come ashore to nest. It has a season — each species its own — and it's watched at night, with a guide and without lights.
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Where to find it · 2 areas
Nosara
A stretch of the Nicoya Peninsula where surfing and yoga overlap. Playa Guiones is long and has waves nearly every day; the town is spread out along dirt roads and trees, and getting there overland in the rainy season takes a while. North of it lies the Ostional refuge, where olive ridley turtles nest.
3 days LimónTortuguero
A village with no road, wedged between the canals and the Caribbean sea: you arrive by boat or small plane. It's one of the main green turtle nesting sites in the Caribbean, and nesting is watched at night with a guide, roughly July to October. The rest of the year the canals are explored by boat or kayak.
2 days