Sea Turtle Sanctuary at Vidanta Nuevo Nayarit — Attraction in Nayarit

This is a well run, professionally managed sea turtle sanctuary at Vidanta. If you’re staying there it’s a very cool, free (!) experience where biologists teach you about the endangered turtles and let you view their release. Note the turtle hatching is most active from late summer-November so it’s not happening year-round.

You may want to bring a towel since there is no seating aside from one small bench, and it can get very crowded. It’s a wonderful experience for everyone, but especially kids. Check with your concierge on the timing- when we visited the session started around 6 but the release was about an hour later (it needs to be...

This visit I didn't see turtle Barb. I hope she is okay. I also noticed the change in the sanctuary area. It appears the resort assumed the space used for the turtles. The number of turtles on the beach was amazing. With that, though, people just don't understand they need to imprint with the sand so they know where to return. Picking them up is not okay. Picking them up and tossing them in the ocean robs them. Smoothing the deep footprints to the water is okay. The excitement of seeing them and wanting to help removes common sense and logistic. The hurricane killed so many unhatch nest, but this was the most I...

It is good to see that the turtle 🐢 population is getting assistance to increase their survival rate.

The best time to come is in the evening when they prepare to release the babies into the ocean. They do this at night so that the birds don't swoop down and eat them. This doubles their survival rate.

Besides seeing the baby turtles, it was interesting to see some other turtles that did not make it in jars on display. These were siamese twin turtles or albino turtles.

I certainly learned much.

It would be nice if there was more literature provided and more English...