Pacific Coast

An easy day trip from San Juan del Sur, Refugio de Vida Silvestre La Flor is where visitors should go to see hatching turtles. From July through December, approximately 30,000 turtles nest and lay eggs. About 45 days later, the eggs hatch and...

Visiting in 1866, Mark Twain wrote about San Juan del Sur that their “bright green hills never looked so welcome, so enchanting, so altogether lovely.” Before the Panama Canal was opened, travelers crossed Central America in Nicaragua via San Juan...