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Night Turtle Nesting Tour from Tamarindo provided by Native's Way

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Night Turtle Nesting Tour from Tamarindo

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Night Turtle Nesting Tour from Tamarindo
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Tour snapshot
Duration:
4h
Taking Covid-19 safety measures
Group size:
20
Ticket type:
Mobile
Free cancellation
  • Duration:
    4h
  • Taking Covid-19 safety measures
  • Group size:
    20
  • Ticket type:
    Mobile
  • Free cancellation
About
On this Tamarindo Turtle Nesting tour, you will have the rare chance to see Olive Ridley and Green Pacific sea turtles lay their eggs, and sometimes even see the babies hatching and going out to sea! - See Turtles Laying their Eggs - Chance of Seeing Baby Turtles Hatching - Local Bilingual Conservationist Guide - A Rare Chance to See Costa Rica's Beloved Turtles
Know before you go
  • Duration: 4h
  • Mobile tickets accepted
  • Instant confirmation
Cancellation policy
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
Available languages
English, Spanish
What to expect
  • Meet your guide and group at the Native's Way tour office, located in front of La Oveja Negra Hostel, just west of the Banco Nacional in downtown Tamarindo. Meeting time is just after sunset. Turtles can be seen year around, but October to April is the peak season for turtle nesting. Travel to a protected beach, Playa Grande. Once there, climb out and spend time watching nature take its course: Green Pacific and Olive Ridley turtles laying their eggs. You may even see Leatherback turtles (very rare) or turtle eggs hatching and babies making their way to the sea.  Flash photography and flashlights are prohibited, but your guide will use a special red light that does not disturb the turtles.  At the conclusion of your tour, get dropped off back at your hotel.
Know before you go
  • Duration: 4h
  • Mobile tickets accepted
  • Instant confirmation
Available languages
English, Spanish
Cancellation policy
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
What to expect
  • Meet your guide and group at the Native's Way tour office, located in front of La Oveja Negra Hostel, just west of the Banco Nacional in downtown Tamarindo. Meeting time is just after sunset. Turtles can be seen year around, but October to April is the peak season for turtle nesting. Travel to a protected beach, Playa Grande. Once there, climb out and spend time watching nature take its course: Green Pacific and Olive Ridley turtles laying their eggs. You may even see Leatherback turtles (very rare) or turtle eggs hatching and babies making their way to the sea.  Flash photography and flashlights are prohibited, but your guide will use a special red light that does not disturb the turtles.  At the conclusion of your tour, get dropped off back at your hotel.
Need help booking?
Call the number below and use the product code: 17279P11
Call +6037-7240250
Important information
Inclusions
  • Local taxes
  • Bottled water
  • Driver/guide
  • Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points
  • Hotel drop-off
Exclusions
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup
Duration
4h
Departure details
  • Native's Way Costa Rica - Tours and Transfers, 50 meters west of Banco Nacional, Guanacaste Province, Tamarindo, Costa Rica 6:00 PM @ Native's Way Tamarindo Office Please contact us if you would like to arrange pick up from a different location
Additional information
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not recommended for children age 4 and under
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Most travellers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travellers
Inclusions
  • Local taxes
  • Bottled water
  • Driver/guide
  • Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points
  • Hotel drop-off
Exclusions
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup
Departure details
  • Native's Way Costa Rica - Tours and Transfers, 50 meters west of Banco Nacional, Guanacaste Province, Tamarindo, Costa Rica 6:00 PM @ Native's Way Tamarindo Office Please contact us if you would like to arrange pick up from a different location
Duration
4h
Return details
  • Returns to original departure point
Additional information
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not recommended for children age 4 and under
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Most travellers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travellers
Travel safe during COVID-19
Last updated: 2 Jul 2020
A note from Night Turtle Nesting Tour from Tamarindo
We intensify cleaning measures for frequently touched surfaces (exterior and interior handles, etc.), control measures to reduce people, masks are not required during the tour, but please bring a mask for the quick transport from hotel to tour start point in case there are other travelers.
What you can expect during your visit
  • Regular temperature checks for staff
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
What you can expect during your visit
  • Regular temperature checks for staff
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
  • Contactless payment for gratuities and add-ons
  • Face masks required for guides in public areas
  • Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
  • Gear/equipment sanitised between use
  • Social distancing enforced throughout experience
  • Face masks provided for travellers
Itinerary
  • You'll start at
    Native's Way Costa Rica - Tours and Transfers
    50 meters west of Banco Nacional, Guanacaste Province, Tamarindo, Costa Rica
    6:00 PM @ Native's Way Tamarindo Office Please contact us if you would like to arrange pick up from a different location
    See address & details
  • 1
    Native's Way
    Stop: 30 minutes
    See details
  • 2
    Playa Mina
    Stop: 2 hours
    See details
  • You'll return to the starting point
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Ann C
6 contributions
Nature at it's best
Dec 2021
Nature at it's best! It is wonderful when you can be a witness to amazing things this universe has to offer us. I was in awe as my family and I got to watch as two turtles dug out the sand, lay about sixty eggs in the sand and then bury them so carefully. Nothing will prepare you for this, but you will be so grateful and have a new respect for turtles and their survival rate. The guide did his best to not disturb the natural process and he provided us a close look at what happens in the process while answering all of our questions.
Written 13 January 2022
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Christopher M
London, UK14 contributions
A very special experience
Jan 2022 • Couples
This was an absolutely amazing experience and it was thanks to the expertise and organisation of the guide that it was so good. He clearly knew his stuff and was able to provide information and answer any questions on turtles. This included where to find the turtles (both hatchlings and mothers laying eggs) and was skilfully able to direct our group around a dark beach so as minimise and give respect to the turtles and their habitat without disturbing them. Would highly recommend.
Written 7 January 2022
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Greg Goltz
12 contributions
Perfect sized group secluded from Tourists
Dec 2021 • Couples
We were part of a small perfect sized group (11) who got to be present when a Green turtle was building its nest, lates it’s eggs, and recovered them
Written 16 December 2021
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TeacherJudy2015
Caledon, Canada15 contributions
Patience is a Virtue
Mar 2021
The tour guide worked diligently managing the safety and experience of the guests and the turtles. We saw two Pacific Greens heading back to the water after laying their eggs and we were all very happy. The guide encouraged us to stay for another half an hour and our patience was rewarded. A Pacific Green came out of the water and laid her eggs right in front of us!
Written 23 March 2021
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Sarah B
2 contributions
Wonderful people, great offerings, I highly recommend!
Mar 2021 • Couples
Native’s Way Tours was terrific to work with. Morgan and other staff helped us set up a series of tours including a sunset catamaran, night time turtle nesting, and snorkeling. I couldn’t be more pleased with the experience.

Our tour guide for the turtle nesting tour, Ivan, was extremely knowledgeable and able to answer all of our questions. He was respectful of the turtles and careful not to disturb them, which we greatly appreciated. He was friendly and kind and made the entire experience delightful.

Ivan found us a turtle. We watched the entire process, from her beginning to excavate her nest, to digging the deeper hole in which she buries her eggs, to laying ~75 eggs, to covering them in the end. We were able to lay on our bellies and watch, with our faces only about two feet from her tail.

It was an incredible and profound experience. It was one of the things I most wanted to see while in Costa Rica and it far exceeded my expectations. Native’s Way Tours was instrumental in this process. You’ll be in good hands working with them!! I couldn’t recommend them more.

Thank you Morgan, Ivan, and others for making our time in Costa Rica so magical!
Written 18 March 2021
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Marvin A
1 contribution
Must see
Mar 2021 • Family
Ivan and Alexander were amazing guides, equally knowledgeable and hospitable. Even having studied Biology and sea turtles in college, I learned so much more in one evening here. The guide’s attitudes were beautiful: positive and grateful for the opportunities to see nature’s wonders. Our five year old loved it too, and peppered the guides with her questions - each of which they answered as fully and lovingly as those of the adults. This has by far been the highlight of our first trip here to Costa Rica: not just for my wife and me but for our kids as well.
Written 11 March 2021
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Arussell87
Tamarindo, Costa Rica15 contributions
Excellent
Excellent customer service. Very knowledgeable tour guide. Amazing experience we were able to see turtles nesting, and baby turtles born and guide them to the water.
Written 18 March 2020
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Samantha K
4 contributions
Unforgettable
Feb 2020
If you love nature and love animals this tour is for you. Our tour host Carlos was amazing and so knowledgable on turtles he gave us a brief lesson on each of the turtles and their nesting habits in the van on the way there. We were very lucky and we able to see greenback baby turtles, olive ridley baby turtles and a mother black back turtle laying her eggs! Carlos spoke with such respect and understanding of mother nature and the turtles, it was lovely! Even after we spotted the baby turtles he said he was determined to find us a big one and drove us to a different beach as the first stop was quite full of other tour groups at one point. We even got to help the last turtles that had been oxygen-deprived and guided them into the water for the first time. It was beautiful, I would absolutely recommend this tour!
Written 18 February 2020
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Steve R
Toronto, Canada52 contributions
amazing access to this natural phenomenon
Feb 2020
the team were extremely careful to minimize the impact on the habitat. The turtles are not interfered with as they migrate from the beach to the ocean. We were so lucky to be able to see a female laying her eggs on a secluded beach. The groups are quite large and the team does try their best to wrangle the crowds, but you do end up standing around waiting fro your turn (nothing much can be done about that)
They picked us up and dropped us off at our hotel in Tamarindo, and even helped our elderly parents on the hike. Great guys! FYI, dont forget to tip the team!
Written 18 February 2020
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Amy M
Idaho61 contributions
Unforgettable experience
Jan 2020
I actually did this tour 2 nights while in Tamarindo since I'm a biologist in the States and wanted as much as possible. The first night we saw a black (Green Pacific subspecies) turtle come onto the beach but left due to hermit crabs on the place she chose, and then a successful black turtle nesting. It takes a while for her to prepare the nest site and the guides did a great job explaining the process while we waited. As she got ready to lay the eggs, we were allowed to sneak up close, and I mean 5 feet away to a live sea turtle. Very Cool! We stayed long enough to get our fill of pictures and the experience, then headed back. Be prepared for a half hour of bumpy roads coming and going. The second night was an almost but not quite successful black turtle nest. Even with the guides adding water, the sand was too dry for the nest.
Written 10 February 2020
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