Hotel Manatus - Tortuguero Costa Rica

A room in the new and exclusive hotel boutique Manatus begins with an extraordinary feeling of peace and comfort. Its internal design inspires and they connect it with the surrounding atmosphere of this sanctuary of wild life, whereas we assured its tranquility, comfort and security.

In Manatus, the attention of first is not an exception is a rule. We offer services VIP and all the possibilities for romantic vacations in family, escapes, sports and adventure.

Tours and activities

Observatory of birds
Our platforms in the trees offer the possibility of seeing wild life from a perspective reserved for a select group of investigators and photographers.

Observatory of frogs
We have reconstructed the natural habitat of the frogs, having allowed that the animals live safe and can reproduce. At the same time, you can enjoy all the splendor of your beauty.

Turtle Tour
Be part of this incredible phenomenon of the nature in the most important site of the western part of the Caribbean for the egg-laying of the Green Turtle (Only June, Julio and August).

Fishing Tour
Tour of fishing provides the opportunity to enjoy the life style of the sport fishing and it is as well an excellent option to pass time of quality with family or friends.

Canopy Tour
It offers to the adventurous tourist the incredible experience to cross the forest from of the same height in which are you glass of the trees.

Kayaks
There are few ways to as intimately see the wild life as from kayak that quiet and smoothly slides among the colorful water channels.

Aquatic bicycle
Tortuguero characterizes by his beauty and his beautiful channels. The aquatic bicycle is the best way to enjoy them.

About National Park Tortuguero

Tortuguero is considered the most important site of the western part of the Caribbean for the egg-laying of the Green Turtle and other species that come to annually deposit their eggs in their coasts. It is one of the zones with greater environmental variety within the system of national parks, with 11 habitats ecological, from a rainy forest to a marsh community. In front of the sea is an extensive beach.

Behind it is a narrow lagoon, connected with the sea by one site and fed by a river in the other, that is parallel to the beach and has a complete length of 35 kilometers. Behind the lagoon it is the rainy forest surrounded by an infinite labyrinth by channels windings and currents fed by the rivers that flow of central ranges of the mountain and in the rains that fall in the area. In the periphery of the forest there is a marsh complex.

Tortuguero shelters a fabulous arsenal of fauna, including more than 300 species of birds, among them guacamaya green; 57 species of amphibians and 111 of reptiles, including three species of marine turtles, 60 species of mammals, and up to 13 of the 16 species put in danger in Costa Rica, like the manatí, jaguars, tapires, “tigrillos”, pumas and otters of the river. The birds commonly seen are the toucans, carpenters, oropendolas them, hawks, several species of herons, martines fishermen, ducks needle, parrots, and jacanas.