Luis was born and raised in Tortuguero, he is a second generation guide. His father, also named Luis Torres worked for Tortuga Lodge first as a gardener, then as a local guide and finally as a Naturalist Guide leading trips all over Costa Rica.
Young Luis has been guiding for one year. Before guiding Luis worked as a boat captain for Naturalist Guides leading groups in Tortuguero, he says he made a conscious effort to learn as much as he could from them and from his guests.
Although many of the people in Tortuguero speak Jamaican English, Luis never learned as a child. He taught himself by asking other guides and his guests to help with pronunciation and by going into the forest to lead tours in English by himself. His hard work and determination has paid off, his guests are delighted when they return from and excursion into the park with him.
Luis and his wife Maria have a daughter, Delyne 5 and are expecting a baby boy any day now.
