Name: Las Baulas National Marine Park
Address: Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, CR
Telephone: +506 2653 0470

Las Baulas National Marine Park is a park, located at Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. They can be contacted via phone at +506 2653 0470, visit their website www.sinac.go.cr for more detailed information.

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Guanacaste Province

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Added by Jopie, at 07 February 2017

Monday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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Anonymous

20 April 2018

Nice spot, but don't expect turtles to be crawling around there all day waiting for photo shots. Not worth travelling for, but nice spot to stop in and relax. swim.
Anonymous

12 April 2018

Our tour bus stopped there for a quick ice cream. It was delicious, many interesting flavors.
Anonymous

08 March 2018

Lovely beach, full of beautiful conches and seashells. The water is rather cold, but the sand is soft and warm. There are several fireflies, butterflies and birds to watch. It is a bit windy, so I wouldn't recommend it for sun bathing, but it is perfect for a nice walk or run.
Anonymous

27 February 2018

Great place, the staff is great. Awesome views, lots of nature. Incredible place to see turtles, mostly leatherback and green turtle.
Anonymous

26 January 2018

Outstanding beach one of the best in Costa Rica
Anonymous

25 January 2018

This place is a must for anyone near it. Since the beach is so big, it doesn't feel crowded even when there's a lot of people but it's not alone enough for it to be unsafe. Beautiful sunsets. Dangerous currents tho, great place for surfing.
Anonymous

30 December 2017

Amazing leatherback nesting tour! Make sure you or your hotel call a week ahead to schedule. We were lucky to see a turtleso few nest here anymore
Anonymous

30 November 2017

The Leatherback turtles are so scarce, only a dozen nested last year along this beach. We waited all evening in the hope of a call but didn't receive one. It takes 20 years to protect enough turtles to see them return to lay eggs themselves. A great project and hopefully will make a big difference.
Anonymous

20 October 2017

Good park, striving to preserve the rarest, the biggest and most ancient turtles in the world.
Anonymous

13 April 2017

Amazing sunsets, perfect for surfing, very little shade and no pets allowed.
Anonymous

01 April 2017

We booked a canoe tour of the estuary in this park. Jonathan was a great guide. We started at Hotel las Tortugas. Jonathan showed an older couple and my wife and I where to enter the estuary.

Then Jonathan guided us around the estuary for two and a half hours on two canoes. We saw amazing trees, a crocodile, crazy birds, howler monkeys, colorful crabs. Jonathan was skilled at pointing all these out.

The only thing I felt a bit confused about is why there are so many lots of land "for sale" inside of the Baulas "National Park" at the start and end of the tour. Square lots of land have been cleared of trees, which used to be monkey habitat. I wish the government did more to protect the wildlife.

Also I heard that there used to be hundreds of turtles every night, but when we went with the wonderful guide Thomas a couple nights ago, we only saw one, because there's more real estate at the beach causing serious damage with light pollution.

(I do recommend the turtle tour with Thomas for $30/person. You'll find him selling coconut water around noon in the parking lot of Hotel las Tortugas.)

I'm glad we got a canoe tour instead of a motor boat tour. There is such amazing nature there and the few times a motorboat came by, we were so glad we chose canoe. The motorboat is just loud and smelly and should be banned. There's no reason to take a motor boat. Even elder folks can canoe, since Jonathan did the paddling for the older couple. Motor boats probably really disturb the nature too.

Highly recommend coming to see all the wildlife! We booked it for $60 with a debit card at Hotel las Tortugas.
Anonymous

24 March 2017

Favortie beaches, in a national park. Dont have to deal with insane amounts of people or commerce just chill. Some of the best waves for surfing, but we ware of the rip currents. Also if you want to have a chance to see the leather back turtles, you need to check into the local tourisim office, limited spaces availavle and there are no guarantees you'll see them either.
Anonymous

14 March 2017

- A conservation disaster -
Looking for sun and snorkeling oppertunities we came to visit the area of Las Baulas National Marine Park for 5 days. First of all, this is one of the few national parks that charges no entree fee.
The park consists mainly of beach, some forest land, mangroveforest habitat and marine habitat. Drive all the way to Playa La Grande and park your car wherever, as soon as you hit the beach you're in the park.
The beaches are pristine, largely undeveloped and virtually empty of people. Walking towards the north end, follow a small trail that leads into the woods. Furtherdown you'll find Playa Carbon. A small beach with the best snorkeling oppertunities! Forget about doing an expensive boattour: we spotted sharks, rays, octopuss and countless species of fish around the rocks. When tide is low; walk a long the tidepools and cliffs to discover more wildelife such as vultures, hawks, large iguanas, huge crabs and fishspecies that hide in the tidepools.
As the turtle nestingseason was at it's end, we decided not to take a nighttour. Apperently the nighttours have a bad reputation.
For the mangroveforest part we did a canoetour. We would recommend this tour for sure as you not only get to wildlife, but also hike around with the guide inside the forests. We spotted the Howler monkey and crocodillians.
Driving around by car and hiking here and there, something disturbing was catching our eye. The Costa Rican goverments is nowedays known for it's strict natureprotection efforts. But this seems all lost for this park. Almost half of the park's land is for sale or rent!!! Mostly North American real estate agencies are buying up the land. Then they clearcut the parts and burn the remains to make it look 'tamed'. It was very sad to see so much of this area beeing destroyed for commercial purposes. So much lost allready! We think a few years from now the park will not be what it used to be. Time for the people there to wake up!
Anonymous

14 February 2017

Would be nice to see the turtles but there are less and less of them. In Jan-Feb 2017 they were spotted only every third day.
Sometimes they don't answer the phone but they do have the night tours every day. If not in high season, just come for a visit around 11:30pm (don't forget your passports)