Central America Snorkeling Travel Guide

Central America Snorkeling Travel Guide

• Central America Overview
• Central America Hotels
• Central America Attractions
• Central America Feature Articles

Other Guides for Central America

• Central America Travel
• Beach Guide
  • Sailing
  • Scuba Diving
  • Snorkeling
  • Surfing
• Family Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Guide

Top Snorkeling Destinations In Central America

• Bocas del Toro, PA
  
• Tamarindo, CR
  

Travel Guides In Central America

• Tortuguero National Park, CR
  • Family Guide
  • Beach Guide
• La Fortuna, CR
  • Family Guide
• Corcovado National Park, CR
  • Family Guide
• Manuel Antonio National Park, CR
  • Family Guide
• Monteverde National Park, CR
  • Family Guide
• Costa Rica
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Nicaragua
• El Peten, GT
  • Family Guide
• Antigua, GT
  • Family Guide
• Belize City, BZ

World Snorkeling Regions

• Africa
• Asia
• Australia-Pacific
• Caribbean
• Central America
• Europe
• North America
• South America

Beach Travel Destinations

• United States
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Mountain West
  • Northeast
  • Pacific Coast
  • Southeast
• Caribbean
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • Puerto Rico
  • St. Kitts and Nevis
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Turks and Caicos
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
• Central America
  • Belize
  • Costa Rica
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
• Mexico
  • Baja
  • Central Mexico
  • Gulf Coast
  • Northern Mexico
  • Southern Mexico
  • Yucatán

A longspine squirrelfish stares down a diver in the reefs off Ambergris Caye (Nathan Borchelt)

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• Top Destinations
• Photos
• Feature Articles
• Trip Ideas
• Practical Advice
• Adventure Trips
• Gear
• Fitness
• Attractions
• Hotels

Central America Snorkeling Destinations

• Costa Rica
• Panama

Top Snorkeling Destinations	Related Travel Guides	Find Hotels
Bocas del Toro		Hotels
Tamarindo		Hotels

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Photos

Feature Articles

• Latin America Times Two
  outside
  
• Honduras
  outside
  Tropical Thrilla in Utila
• Top Ten Places to Snorkel
  Away.com Beach Experts Gary Chandler and Liza Prado share their favorite snorkel spots in the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico
• Worldwide Wild
  outside
  Domican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize
• Punta Caracol Acqua Lodge
  outside
  The lullaby of lapping waves

Trip Ideas

• Ten Delicious Places to Dip into Diving
  The Galapagos: South American Spectacle
• Into the Blue Hole: Scuba Dive Belize's Lighthouse Reef Atoll
  
• Glover's Reef Atoll
  Top Ten Belize Adventures
• Liquid Paradise: Water Sports in Belize
  
• Paddling through Paradise: Sea Kayak the Belize Reef
  

Practical Advice

• Sharks: Myths and Realities
  Every summer, the ominous display of a dorsal fin sends crowds scurrying for the shore—and newspaper headlines exploding with warnings. Find out why that’s the wrong way to act.
• Deep Focus
  Learn the basics of underwater photography and you expand the experience of scuba diving and snorkeling. Our ten tips will help keep things crystal clear.
• The Move
  outside
  Go deeper with champion freediver Tanya Streeter
• A Diving Primer
  

GORPtravel Adventure Trips & Guided Tours

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  Turneffe Flats Atoll Adventure
  Turneffe Flats Resort
  from $886, 3-6 days
  Snorkel Turneffe Atoll, Lighthouse Reef, the Blue Hole, and participate in 16 different marine Eco-tours included in this Atoll Adventure Package....
  
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  Mango Creek Lodge
  Mango Creek Lodge
  from $1645, 8 days
  Mango Creek Lodge is situated on what can be described as 22 acres of Eco Friendly Jungle. Our full-time gardeners tend to dozens of varieties of...
  
• 
  You Better Belize It: A Family Adventure
  JOURNEYS International
  from $3225, 9 days
  This itinerary was designed as a labor of love by Luis and JOURNEYS International specialists Florine Herendeen and Lene Minder. All activities can...
  
• 
  Anthony's Key Resort - Kid's Dolphin Summer Camp
  Bahia Tours
  from $899, 8 days
  In warm Caribbean waters, kids are involved in snorkeling, dolphin feeding, swimming, and marine experiments. ...
  
• 
  Costa Rica Nicoya Peninsula Sea Kayaking
  Crystal Seas Kayaking
  from $529, 5 days
  One of the best kept secrets...in sea kayaking is the southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. The area is famed for its spectacular...
  

Gear

• Diving Fin Innovations
  outside
  Maiden voyage of the man-fish
• Tropical Getaway
  outside
  The key to packing light for a warm-weather trip: quality, not quantity.
• Olympus Stylus 790 SW
  outside
  
• Aqualung Mythos mask and Caravelle ADJ fins
  outside
• JBL Woody Sawed-Off Magnum Speargun
  outside

Fitness

• The Move
  outside
  Go deeper with champion freediver Tanya Streeter

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Attractions

West Bay

Good For Snorkeling

Tabyana Beach
Roátan, Honduras

Description: West Bay, also known as Tabyana Beach, offers a good-sized swath of palm-tree lined sands, and is a good destination for diving and snorkeling.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Swan's Cay

Good For Snorkeling

Isla Colon
Bocas del Toro, Panama

Description: A beautifully picturesque islet located off of the north end of the island, Swan's Cay is Panama's... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Dive Little Corn

Good For Snorkeling

Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

Description: Dive Little Corn was the first PADI certified diving outfitter in Nicaragua. They offers daily... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

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Sin Duda

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Victoria House

Ambergris Caye
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Good For Snorkeling

Expert Rated & Recommended

Deep Blue Resort

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