Samara Vacations, Samara Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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.)  I went only for two weeks, but it was very rewarding, and I would go again for longer in a heartbeat!  One of the great aspects of my trip was gettting to see how people really live in Samar...

¿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 último. Inti en cambio confiaba en tener las llaves en su poder en tan sólo unos minutos, los que separaban el Hotel Casa del Mar del punto de venta de tickets de autobús, que a su vez servía pa...

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 breaks).  We went looking for some cheap rooms, and was too hot and bothered, so we took the Cabinas playa Samara, now!!! we did see the room, and we did say yes, but hell, i wish we hadnt, the r...

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 the border, that it left me a bit concerned for when we'll be in a land where we don't speak the language! We´ll have to work something out somehow. Anyway, we saw a bunch of people who seemed to b...