San Jose Travel Blogs - Page 2

this was my first experience in a hostal and i must say it was a good one, thanks matt http://www.travbuddy.com/mtweet10 for telling me about it... it was very clean and had everything we needed from a computer with Internet, even though it was down most of the time, to clean bathrooms and bed…

Today I got home from Costa Rica, which should be renamed Costa Roja, since that's what color you are after a day on the costa.  In my case it's a poisonous shade of red, almost purple really, that stops complete strangers in their tracks in the airport restroom where I lifted up my shirt seve…

  We arrived in Orlando, but it is the US, so we had to go through customs, and that took a very long time. Suddenly everything went very fast and they almost forced us to run to our connecting flight. This plain was special arranged for us, but was already waiting for us. This was a cityhopp…

Another long layover? Well, maybe but not boring at all. Chris had to catch another flight - a domestic one, but had some to kill. And what about me? well, my flight wouldn't leave before 5 hours, hahaha.Oh no! then I noticed that the domestic flights departure from another building. Just walking d…

We had no idea where to go or even where to look for a hostel in San Jose! We were lost when we hit the bus station, and luckily we ran into some guys who were headed to Tranquilo and said that we could follow them. We hooked up with the guys as they led us to Tranquilo Backpacker Paradisio. We cro…

San Josè ! Of the 30 different capitals I`ve been to in 4 different continents, this is undoubtedly the ugliest one! Probaqbly also the dirtiest, and most polluted air(on level with Damascus and Kairo). Also probably one of the smallest, with exeption to Torshavn on Faraoe island which is the smal…

After a long, long bus journey we arrived in the costa rican capital: San Jose.We haven't done anything special in San Jose, we just found a hostel and went for dinner...We just stayed 1 night before we headed to the south of Costa Rica.

$, yep, thats all I can really express about San Jose. This is by far the most expensive city in Latin America that I know, it really is rediculous. I spent more in one night, just one night, in San Jose than I spent in one week in Peru. Give me a break. Sorry, Im not too happy about it, especial…

Costa Rica is a great place with lots of places to visit.  I spent two weeks and visited both coasts, took a sea kayak tour and visited an active volcano.  Sounds like a lot but there are still lots more things to do.  I could come again and spend more time and see totally diferent t…

So, I left NJ airport at 8am and I was on my way to the trip of my life! The flight was 30 min late due to airport traffic, we were 20th in line to take off, and once we did the flight was fast and pleasant. After 4 hours and 37 minutes we landed in Costa Rica!!! A guy came up to me asking me to…

I'm all packed and ready to return home. My flight is not until 2:55 pm, so I have some time to kill. This part of the trip is always the worst because you don't have time to do anything fun and it is hard to relax because you start thinking about the long trip home and what awaits you. I…

And after so many days of living far from home, it was finally time for me to return to California.  I had bought a new ticket home to extend my trip by another few weeks, but now I had to go home.  My last day in San Jose was spent with a lot of wandering, writing, shopping, and eating.&…

On November 6 I got on a plane leaving to San Jose, Costa Rica... ok, the flight was quite long and to be honoust I didn't like the airline that much (Iberia from Spain) but we got there on time and safely. Our first 2 days we spend in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica and we visited the Poas Vo…

Costa Rica, second Miami...yes I think so. If you´re keen to take part in professionally run Eco Tours, Costa is the place. For me the key to Costa was catching up the Mum and Phil for a week. We headed to the north east coast where green turtles lay eggs (100 or so) on the beach at ni…

Waking up at 5 in the morning is never fun. Today would not be an exception. I had to be up to catch the bus to Golfito. Unfortunately that means gettign the 5.30 bus. I have previously mentioned the painfully bumpy road that the bus must go along. It is far worse when the bus is over crowded and …