My partner and I showed up at 3pm on a week day having done very minimal research about the sanctuary. We were not necessarily interested in doing a baby turtle release—we just wanted to see the nesting grounds, beach etc. The area is a quiet, beautiful and peaceful place to spend time and bird watch. After about 20mins of walking the beach alone, an ATV approached us with 2 staff members riding. They had 4 baby turtles with them and offered for us to release them into the ocean at a price. We agreed and paid 200 pesos to release the turtles in the broad day light. We had no idea that within moments of putting the babies down on the beach, a swarm of birds would come and feast on them all. It was a pretty traumatic and disheartening experience as we hopelessly tried to protect the babies from swarms of birds. It seems unlikely that the staff didn’t know this would happen… We would have happily left a generous donation and trusted the staff to release the babies at night so that they might actually have had a chance at survival. Really regretted not doing our research ahead of time, and would definitely recommend going after sunset if you’re interested in doing a release.

Beautiful place

This was such an amazing heart felt experience, the release of newly hatched sea turtles back into their natural habitat I recommend this tour for everyone, check first to enquire about the releases, the beach is some beautiful with a sunset to rival none so bring your camera , fantastic

We went at the end of the season so there were only a few hatchlings but it was still such a special experience at sunset. What amazing work this group is doing to protect turtles with little support other than from tourists. We can’t wait to come back in season.

I don't have enough good things to say about this. We did it as part of an eco tour with Maxi Travel and had Carlos as our tour guide. He was great and so much fun, we loved his stories and views of his Mexico. Sadly we were with a few crusty older people who weren't happy woth anything. This experience was life changing. We all got to put baby turtles on the beach by the ocean and helped make the population a bit stronger. Those seagulls were just waiting to try and eat them but Carlos and one of the ladies who works the Sanuario were waving and showing them away. The Pacific waves came in hard and crashed loud on the beach pulling them out to sea to start thier dangerous adventure. The beach was full of hatched eggs and even a few adult turtles that didn't make it. If you have a chance to go do this, I highly suggest you do... well worth the money which was actually cheap.

Pay a little to get to take a bucket full of baby turtles to the ocean. It's very cute and you'll be taught a little about sea turtle conservation too. You have to wait for sundown to release the tortuguitas so the birds have a harder time finding them in the water. You'll bond with your infant turtles and seeing them get picked off the waves by hungry birds is a little like watching your own children being murdered.

We saw hundreds of them. Place is very nice but if they will have space for caravan as us could be so nice . Caravans can pay a little bite and this money can help develop too.

Had a great family experience, don't go too early or the seagulls will eat all your turtles.

The public beach appears to be closed. You can't walk on the beach without a guide. They say you might step on turtle eggs.

Nice huge beach with nice turtle rescue people. 200 pesos to release 12 babies. But it's worth it

It’s really amazing job what are they doing. Fighting with birds is like trying to leap water in your hands. But it is worth it! These little creatures are so cute, helpless but important!

We were there in the morning. Nothing is going on. Nothing and no one seen. What did we go there for? I suspect this place will be included in tours. Solo pointless.

Amazing experience freeing baby turtles and seeing nature at its finest. Did this through a great tour guide.

Such a precious experience! Highly recommend this sanctuary. All the volunteers care so much about these little baby turtles! 💚

A fantastic group, doing amazing work. The experience of assisting newly hatched turtles make it to the ocean safely was something that I will always cherish!

Amazing experience and so much cheaper than other places around 200 pesos each and we got to release about 50 turtles. Best to go in the evening to give them the best chance of survival and avoid the birds

One of the best beaches in Oaxaca mexico to go and free the baby sea turtles, I’ll recommend this amazing experience to everyone that loves turtles

Great place to visit and release turtles while helping the community to continue their Hart work to preserve the species

Beautiful community and place. I admire the work they do

Highly recommend a visit to this turtle sanctuary. It was a magical experience to release baby turtles into the surf at dusk.

Amazing guide and organization. But they release turtles in the morning (10am) for tourists, and all of them get eaten by seagulls. It should only be at sunset or very early morning!

The people in charge of taking care of the place are very kind, it is a commendable job, I wish they had real support from the government. The experience with the turtles was beautiful. Highly recommended.