Puntarenas Travel Blogs

I caught the first bus out of Santa Teresa this morning- at 5:30am! It was kind of sad to leave the beach. I was enjoying it so much!Yesterday I rented a board for the day. I tried to surf in the morning but the waves here are pretty strong, so I was having trouble getting out beyond where they bre…

Costa Rica is a beautiful country full of nature and adventure. The country has impressive forests, volcanoes, beaches and a lot of animals. Travelling and living there was an unforgettable experience. I love the food, the people and the country. Costa Rica es Pura Vida!!

A visit to Central America to the Country of Costa Rica.

3 weeks of seeing almost the whole country and having fun and blending in!

I am studying Spanish in San Jose, Costa Rica from May 15 to June 13, 2007.

Selection of pics from our trip to Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. +++ Text is UNDER CONSTRUCTION +++

The saying, "getting there is half the fun", became worthless thanks to the airplane. The airplane made travel between long distances almost non-existent. I get to London quicker from my house than I can get to work some mornings! Today that old saying began to ring true for us, not that we apprec…

The approach to Puntarenas was very beautiful.  Early in the morning you could see a magnificent sunrise with the mountains in the back.  The town is a fisherman's town with lot of boats in the port.  I did not spent too much time in it because I left to see the POAS volcano.

FRIDAY   We took the advice of our newly acquainted surfer friends and at my insistence- read as frustrated anger with a slow-to-respond/hungover Ben, we headed to the southwest most tip of Costa Rica to a small little surfing village called San Jose. We really had no idea what to expect, ot…

So Eric (fellow volunteer hailing from Medford, Oregon) and I got on a bus to go to the seaside. The Puntarenas station in San José seems to have been built for the inquisitive as it is bloody hard to find.  We stumbled across it quite by accident.  Our ticket comprised of a tatty old cr…

So we decided on a little surfing trip to Costa Rica. We bought tickets through Lacsa/Taca airlines and a week later and we were off.

Joining the ship i'll be working on for 6 months.

Travel blog of Toby and Nicole. The plan is: First one month in France, then we fly into Mexico City, make our way down south through the continent, hop over to Cuba along the way and fly out of Sao Paulo 11 months later.

We (somehow) managed to get on the 6am bus to Puntarenas from Monteverde. The journey started off very cold but soon warmed up to sweltering temperatures as we left the mountains behind. After about 3 hours we arrived in a very hot Puntarenas and as soon as we stepped off the bus we were told by th…

Made it back to Oregon. I've updated some pictures with more to come.