Cahuita, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Andrew´s birthday, and Monkey Attack
Feb 13, 2006 (4 photos)

... was super spicy and tasty--note to CHAD: we DID have spicy food before we got to Mexico. The Carribean side of Costa Rica has a huge Jamaican influence. We will probably leave tomorrow to head south to Manzanilla and to see Tom Shaver in Punta Mona ...

Cahuita
Apr 5, 2007

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Chilling to the Reggae vibe.....
Jun 29, 2007 (15 photos)

... took the short bus ride south, where we stood in queues for what seemed like hours at the Penas Blancas border crossing. Stamped into Costa Rica our bus passed the most beautiful scenery on it's way to San Jose (that song was in my head the entire journey ...

Finally some monkeys
Sep 1, 2007 (5 photos)

Cahuita was smaller and less fun than Puerto Viejo, but the National Park was a highlight. Since the park was so accessible and crowded we kept expectations low on seeing wildlife, but as soon as we saw the monkey droppings...we knew we ...

Cahuita National Park
Dec 24, 2004 (5 photos)

Cahuita National Park - We took the short trip over into Costa Rica and continued up the Caribbean Coast to Cahuita National Park, where we would spend Christmas.  We stayed for a few days in the small town of Cahuita, and spent most of the time on ...

Long and Crazy Trip
Nov 29, 2008 (15 photos)

What a crazy trip it's been!  I arrived in Costa Rica on Wednesday night exhausted. I'd been traveling the better part of the day from Rofo to Philly, then taking the train to Newark, then the plane to San Jose. When I got through immigration ...

Day 3 Cahuita
Sep 9, 2007 (10 photos)

... nbsp; We got on the bus after paying 60 colones, or about 12 cents, to use the bathroom.  We rode 4 hours to Cahuita on the Carribean coast.  We drove through the mountains.  On the way down the mountain we could feel the humidity.  ...

Cahuita
Mar 31, 2005 (8 photos)

... the first 2 days of my trip in Cahuita, a laid-back town at the Carribean Coast with Jamaican roots. A small national park (Cahuita National Park)is located very close to the town. Here you can see black howler monkeys, White-faced Capuchin monkeys, the ...

Bird is the word and rain is the bane!
Mar 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... from town. The southern beaches, the forest behind them, and the coral reef offshore (one of just a handful in Costa Rica) are all part of Cahuita National Park. And the area is full of wild life..we can´t even count the number of different types of ...

Escaping the big city for a Caribbean beach
Mar 30, 2007

... walk through the national park looking for the animals that allegedly live in it.  As with every other national park in Costa Rica I didn't see a single animal.  They must have all headed south or started hibernating early.  I have come to ...

Seid lieb zu den Tierlein, Teil III
Jul 8, 2007 (8 photos)

Wenn man so viel Zeit zur Verfuegung hat, wird man praktisch gezwungenermassen hochgradig philosophisch: Ich sitze am Strand und beobachte einen grossen Krebs, zweifellos mit Namen Brutus. Brutus kriecht etws ziellos durch den Sand, seine Absichten sind ...

The 60 day Seventeen
Apr 6, 2006

... Laguna de Apoyo 10. Number of bottles of hot sauce acquired: 11 and counting! 11. Favourite little known city: Las Juntas, Costa Rica 12. Best cigar thus far: Sultan robusto with maduro wrapper 13. Number of bottles of Flor de Cana rum consumed ...

Los Osos Perezosos
Sep 21, 2008 (41 photos)

... she made us her specialty cocktails. She used to be a bartender in D.C., so we chatted about the business, cultural differences between Costa Rica and the States, and the curious lack of tampons in this country. ("Women's rights," she chalked it up to, ...

Cahuita Caribbean drinking
Dec 7, 2006

Instead of heading straight to Panama City and chilling, I decided to head with the gang to the Caribbean coast, looking for my faith in the Caribbean weather to be restored after the time spent on Utila...if bad, theres always a bar hey! Well thankfully ...

the dates are all wrong for these...
Aug 5, 2008

... . We only spent one full day here in the national park. Very pretty...we saw a bunch of sloths and howler monkeys. that's about it for Cahuita, nothing too exciting. OH we also saw a bootlegged version of the sex and the city movie...I was so excited!

Otra vez!
Sep 21, 2008

... his help. There was one girl who came out on the boat but didn't go in the water; she's a Costa Rica native who had never been to Cahuita, lives in Vienna now and speaks five languages. I'm always envious of people who have the guts and worldliness to ...

Carribean Coast
Apr 22, 2006 (34 photos)

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Cahuita / Puerto Viejo. Caribbean Coast. Maan.
Feb 22, 2008 (5 photos)

... to rip tides to we didnt go in much.  After some Caribean cuisine and plenty of cocktails we headed to bed. We liked Cahuita, small town feel, where locals had a commnity centre, people rode bikes through the town, and kids played table football and ...

Cahuita
Nov 14, 2007

Hola from Cahuita I am currently in Cahuita, Costa Rica, I spent 2 days in Quepos and in Manuel Antonio. I hiked all through Manuel National Park and saw lots of iguanas, 2 sloths thousands of hermits crabs and very beatuiful beaches and forest. I ...

Sandras Geburtstag in der Faultier-Rettungsstation
Jun 9, 2009 (11 photos)

... Anlass etwas besonders Schoenes im Internet gefunden: www.slothrescue.org. Das ist eine Faultier-Rettungsstation an der Atlantikkueste von Costa Rica, also dort wo wir sowieso gerade hin wollten. Wir geben auf halbem Weg das Auto wieder beim Vermieter ab ...

Bummin' on the beach
Jul 7, 2005 (13 photos)

... a fun run to HiperMas with Jennifer and Antony to get my mattress, which they weren't able to deliver because there are no addresses in Costa Rica, I live on a road that's too hard for a truck to get through, and I didn't have a phone for them to call me ...

Cahuita, a place where some westerners got strande
Nov 4, 2007 (3 photos)

... to a "nat.park", if you want to call it that. The park offers mainly beaches, so better call it beach reserve. Cahuita is a little layed back village, but of corse, touristy. Main attractions: beaches , tours to tortuego, smoking .., Quite many ...

Cahuita and the Costa Rica football match
Apr 3, 2009

Cahiuta is a very relaxed caribbean village with black, coral and white beahes.  This was the last stop on the tour before the return to San Jose.  I decided to signed off the tour a few days early as I didn´t really fancy heading back into town ...

Canada day in Cahuita
Jul 5, 2006 (15 photos)

... unattractive tourists (excluding us) and street dogs gravitate to Cahuita, and the most beautiful beach in the world. Cahuita is definitely apart from the rest of Costa Rica, culture-wise. We felt like we were in a different country. It is a must-see but ...

More fun in the sun
Nov 30, 2005 (35 photos)

... had a friend, Roger, come down to visit this past week and we had a really great time playing with the kids and going to Cahuita for Thanksgiving. It was about time for me to have a break, so it was (almost) perfect! Aside, of course, from the allergic ...

Where's all the Rasta Love?
Jul 9, 2007 (11 photos)

... some painfully hot chinese food before we managed to get seats on the bus right next to our bags - score. The ride to Cahuita was pretty short really, but Sam made up for this by being his usual indecisive self when we were choosing a room...... The ...

Battle of the bulge.
Dec 29, 2008 (15 photos)

... room with 6 other people was about the most money we´d spent on accommodation so far this trip. Giving you an idea of Costa Rica´s inflated cost. To cut it short. We were up and away early to Cahuita on the east coast near the Panamanian boarder. We ...

adventures in the caribbean
May 9, 2006 (24 photos)

Hello, everyone! Natalia and her friend Dan arrived in Costa Rica last week, and we went to the Caribbean side to have some adventures for the weekend. We went to Cahuita (again, for lucky me!). On the bus, we met up with a Swiss guy named Daniel ...

It's Sweeter In Cahuita
Sep 13, 2005 (4 photos)

... divs, we sat down and waited. 40 minutes later, the office opened, we bought tickets, caught the bus, got to Cahuita. No problem. Costa Rica is famous for its two main exports: coffee and bananas. On the journey we ran through the heartland of banana ...

Water logged and turtle bound
Apr 1, 2006 (10 photos)

... has been the case with most of this trip, the weather didn´t really cooperate for our little mini vacation on the black sand beaches of Cahuita and Puerto Viejo. We had lots and lots of rain..but it was a nice break just the same and it was a good job ...