Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Note: Left my camera in LA and won't be able to upload photos until I get back next week. Check out some of Dave's photos from the trip here:www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/12062-----Before the trip, Dave and I meticulously packed up our surfboards. We smothered the boards with bubble wrap, padded t…

  And so we were back in San José. We used the day to wind down a bit. Do some laundry, check some e-mails, do some shopping, etcetera. In the evening we went out in San Pedro again. Despite today being a Saturday it wasn't as much fun as last week. Guess week nights are better fo…

OK, this is a bit of a behemoth.  I thought I'd write a summary of the country as I found it now I'm leaving it.  Although life is full of shades of grey, the old B&W best of/worst of format will suffice for this resumé.  Sorry it is huge, I have tried to break it up though to m…

Carsten and I picked our backpacks up at the hostel and provisionary refreshed us on the street…changed shirts and stuff. Then we went to the ferry which was supposed to leave at 12:30pm. We got there in time and decided to seat on the deck this time. No brash music-videos up there, yay! Settling…

This day was pretty uneventful.  Sarah and I made the sad drive from Arenal to San Jose, which took about three hours, dropped off the rental car, and headed to the airport to catch our respective flights.  I had a connection in Guatemala City, Guatemala and talked…

Beeing in between jobs has given me a good chance to spend 7 weeks traveling a bit ! Me and Torunn , my girlfriend are going to do everything worth doing in Panama, Costa Rica and Nicuaragua.

Well lets just say i am back from hell!!! aka "JACO" what a dump i mean seriously i mean the place is a absolute dump!!! It was a cross between Falaraki and Luton!!! but without the sunburnt english barmy army, no instead it was the American barmy army, and truckloads of rubbish and cheap ladys…

To say goodbye to Puerto Viejo, we went to the beach all morning and then packed our plastic bag with our few clothes and left. First we made a stop in Cahuita to see the national park (nice!) and catch a road by the ocean which was "sin salida" ...we just found this out after 1/2 hour driving... …

  NOW, IT”S TIME TO SAY GOOD NIGHT   My time in San José was short and sweet.   As I headed to the airport to fly to Bogotá, I thought about all of the adventures I had shared with new TravBuddy friends I had met only 36 hours ago. I could almost hear the old Beatles song fr…

Wow…Que dia! We started out fairly late today, around 10a. We wanted to focus on the city....to explore every nook and cranny....to discover its treasures and best kept secrets....ALL ON FOOT! Together with a handy-dandy Fodor’s Costa Rica 2009 guidebook, we clocked in miles and miles and miles…

I usually don't like to travel on short notice and tend to plan trips months in advance.  Last week, however, I received a deal that was too good to pass up if I visited Liberia, Costa Rica just for that weekend.  When I was five, we lived in San Jose for a year and it was always on my li…

Arrived in San Jose via a direct flight from JetBlue.  My taxi was waiting for me - great guy with a nice clean van.  Took me direct to La Hotel Amistad for $30; which I paid in USD.  (In general, most mainstream places take USD or colones; but it is good to keep both on you at all t…

    After our third day of the rafting trip, we headed back to Heredia. I finished up some souvenir shopping for friends and family and took the first warm shower I've had in a while. Haha. For myself, I got five packs of these coconut cookies that I had fallen in love with. &nb…

I'M EMPLOYED!!!!! I got a job with a great company, Idiomas Internacional, as an English teacher... in Liberia (Costa Rica, not Africa)! The great part is that they work in conjunction with the government on a program called the INA (Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje/National Institute of Learning)…

Al dia siguiente de llegar a San Jose, ya nos volviamos para España, pero como era por la tarde, esa manaña tuvimos tiempo de dar un paseo por San Jose.  Te recomiendan que tengas mucho cuidado, que no atiendas a extraños que te digan cosas, que no mires un mapa o te distraigas en la calle,…