Samara Travel Blogs

So this summer, I took off for two weeks to Samara, Costa Rica.  Samara is a small village on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica.   I was a wonderful experience!  I went through an organization called Volunteer Visions.  (You can find them online.)&nbs…

¿Qué te apuestas a que no están las llaves? pregunté retando a Inti cuando por la mañana temprano íbamos a buscarlas a la Oficina de Encomiendas. Cierto que pequé de agorero, pero esa era la sensación que tenía. Había que estar preparado para lo mejor y para lo peor, sobre todo para esto …

Wow, it is just so pretty here.And even though it is small I totally love it.Great restaurants (coco's), great beautiful beach and friendly people.the bars and restaurants are located at the beach and offer great music and fun people.I will stay for a while :)

We left Nicoya yesterday afternoon, in a way i was glad we had left, i felt out of place in that town, it was the first time since i left home that i felt out of place.  So here we are in samara, after a nighmare journey on the chicken bus (old American school buses, with terrible br…

Costa Rica!! Pura Vida!! We reached Costa Rican territory early in the day, and lucky for us that we did because crossing the border was a huge fiasco.  I'm now realizing how important and how fortunate we are, that at least one of us speaks Spanish. We saw and heard all sorts of things at th…

2003 Trip to visit family and lazy around. Hopefully I'll have time to go back some time this summer.

What a beautiful country; Costa Rica! If you like beautiful nature, very nice and kind people and a lively, colourful atmosphere you have to go here!!

I told them I would help to find new qualified staff and I really think I is fun working there, so here you go!Graphic Designer Description: Graphic Jam S A is looking for an intern in Graphic Design. Graphic Jam S A (including Del Sol Magazine) is a company located in Samara, Costa Rica…

A two week trip through Costa Rica

This past week has been a rough one. I have been sick all week. It was my birthday on Tuesday, but I was so tired that I didn't do anything but volunteer in the morning and read all evening. (I'm reading Harry Potter 6 in Spanish!)On the bright side, Mandy and I have been teaching english this past…

Well at the moment we are now in Playa Samara, and well i can not work out if im happy with this place or not.... We worked our way down here from Monterverde, when we had done our tours there, we decided to move on, and to get to this place we had to get a bus to Puntarenas, where we then caught …

Monday 3/15 -  I woke up at 6:00am.  I did not want to miss a minute of our vacation.  Oscar was there early to pick us up for the ride to Samara. Sunny morning could see the ocean from our room this morning. I did some bird watching this morning saw 4 different types’ one wit…