Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
Heredia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Heredia
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La Condesa Hotel And Villas Heredia
33 reviews -
Bougainvillea Heredia
142 reviews -
La Lora Hostel Heredia
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Quality Hotel Monte Campana Heredia
40 reviews -
Hotel Chalet Tirol Heredia
48 reviews
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Hotel America Heredia
14 reviews -
Hotel Ceos Heredia
1 review -
Herradura Heredia
6 reviews
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Apart-Hotel Roma Heredia
20 reviews
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Hotel & Boutique Hojarascas Heredia
85 reviews
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La Catalina Hotel & Suites Heredia
40 reviews
Heredia
Travel Blogs from Heredia, Costa Rica
Happiest Place on Earth and You Are Staying ......
This is a top pick! ... able to live with Clem’s family last year in France to experience an insider’s view of French village life, and now see Costa Rica from a true Tico viewpoint. German and Rosa picked us up at the bus station in San Jose and made it clear from ...
What? No Air conditioning?
This is a top pick! ... finally got our exit stamp after another 45 minutes or so. Then haul the bags back onto the bus, drive about 100 metres into Costa Rica, claim our bags off the bus and get back into a line. All good until we found out Costa Rica is ...
Maromero - Orphanage visit
This is a top pick! ... where he can make a difference and on this day we were lucky enough to tag along to a little 'girls only' orphanage in Heredia. German and his kids followed a service at the catholic orphanage and the girls were mesmerized by him and his gift ...
One mis-step and you are a part of the forest!
This is a top pick! ... /coffee liquor stop, we drove between the cordillera mountains, left the province of Alajuela and entered the province of Heredia. The La Paz Waterfall and Gardens awaited us and what an unbelievable experience that was. The first element of folklore ...
Birdwatchers' Delight
This is a top pick! ... of Mexico. Again with some reluctance, we finally left the Monteverde area to head for the Nicoya Peninsula, home to some of Costa Rica's best beaches. The drive down to the coast through hot, dry, deforested hillsides was quite a contrast to the lush ...
end of the line..
This is a top pick! ... after sundown.. Now at our final destination we were looking to part ways, i looked for a boat heading south to Costa Ricas main Caribbean port, Peurto Limón, whilst the others wanted to head north towards Bluefields. Unfortunately there was nothing ...
Putting Down Roots in Costa Rica
This is a top pick! ... we still hope it`s the case) like Meghan and Davis who allowed us to set up camp (in a cabin) for a month. - Costa Rica Independence Day celebrations (September 15): The culmination of months of practice, it consists of all the primary and secondary ...
5 day adventure, 1+2
This is a top pick! ... Gumps principal makes when getting it on with his mum.. I slept most of the way there but managed to see that Costa Rica who is supposedly well renowned for being environmental aware had chopped all the pristine jungle similar to that which Nicaragua ...
manatee spotting.
This is a top pick! Day 3 Pueblo Tambor Our third day was a lot easier and enjoyable with an upclose connection with the unspoiled landscape around us (Nicaraguan side only) .. So we woke in time to hear the racket from the howler monkeys, paddled through Crocodile alley ...
Volcan Poas
... . In reality the lagoon is slightly acidic and is home only to small bacteria. Poas is definitely a must-see for anyone visiting Costa Rica! We are both extremely excited for our journey up the West Coast, and into Nicaragua- our next entry is sure to ...
Working on IAC
... I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here was a great experience overall and more importantly a fantastic excuse to spend 5 weeks in Costa Rica. It served as the jumping off point to what would be an unforgettable trip around all of Central America. ...
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Leaving Tortuguero worked out surprisingly well considering I travelled independently - most people took the package of boat ride & shuttle into Cariari for an inflated price whereas I took the 11am water taxi to La Pavona ($3) and then the 1pm ...
Bienvenido a Costa Rica! :D
... ihr erfahren, was ich hier schon schönes unternommen habe.... ;)! Ok passt auf euch auf und friert nicht zu sehr! Besitos aus Costa Rica ! :D Eure CanCostaRica Chica Larita :) ( Larita ist mein neuer Spitzname, da die sich meinen Namen hier nicht so gut ...
Days 21-23: If you do drugs, don´t get caught!
... afternoon, we had an orientation at our instutute which was interesting to say the least. They taught us about the local buses, Costa Rican practices, and they offered a few other suggestions. For example, drugs are illegal so hide when you use them. ...
Los Rapidos
The last time I went white-water rafting was in Sun River, Oregon. I was nine years old, so I wasn't exactly an active participant. We bought an overpriced photo of ourselves getting tossed around in Class IV rapids, in which I am sitting on the back of ...
Oops, we seem to be in Nicaragua
... the river as theirs and making us fly the Nicaraguan flag on our boat for about 20 minutes of our trip. Then we were back in Costa Rica, although there was no border crossing back in, so really I have no clue where I am. On the promise of lush jungly ...
Day 20: Happy birthday to you...
... gate, we realized that our tickets said business class - which basically meant first class - and we enjoyed a surprisingly comfortable flight to Costa Rica. A man from the institute where we are going to study picked us up and drove us to our new home. ...
Costa Rica baby!!
... ticket! Heredia isn't too impressive as a town, it has everything you could imagine as a suburb of the capital city in Costa Rica... lots of Catholic churches, lots of taxis and lots of people who would love to seperate you from your money! Luckily, my ...
Los Murcielagos de Reserva Biologica de Tirumbina
Today was mostly a travel day, but we did get a chance to feed some bats. According to our itinerary, this evening we were to visit the Tirumbina Biological Reserve for a two-hour "night walk," during which we would learn about such nocturnal ...
Gimme an I
... to her because that has been the problem all along. Then I tell her that I had told Joy that I would meet her in Heredia and we were going to take a taxi back here in time for the fiesta they are planning tonight. Her face twisted halfway between a ...
A glimpse of weekend life
Good events never seem to make such wonderful stories as the unfortunate ones. However, I was able to pry a misadventure or two from this weekend's adventures. It started out as another dull weekend at home when a friend called and said she simply ...
Monteverde: A Continued Review
... the experience. You wouldn't feel like you were going into the backcountry if the roads were paved. Touché. It also wouldn't be Costa Rica if the international highway had four lanes (It has two, and at times three but people don't understand the ...
Spontaneity
... have to pile on the other end of the see-saw. Anyhow, I was swinging, just contemplating life and my existence as a PCV in Costa Rica, my site in particular, when I decided to do something spontaneous. When I swing, I usually face the road-side. The ...
A whale of a tale
... lunch, when we went back to the beach, we weren't so lucky. I lost a shoe several times due to the suction-ocity of Costa Rican mud. Ick... I really wanted to find the whale's tail, but the person leading the way couldn't remember where it was. We ...
In Service Training
Thanksgiving photos from Cauhita Beach, Hone Creek, and Limon So I´ve made it to the 3 month mark as a volunteer. And over 6 months in country. Woot! Definitely lovin´ the life here. IST, In Service Training, is a week long training at a nice ...
Tico teens and projects
... group sharing, etc. Two, this is going to sound silly, but I found it fascinating that the teens ate the food. It was typical Costa Rican food, but in American standards, it´s not cool. Or at least not what I consider cool. Cool things to eat for lunch- ...
No cell phone, so I can't go skating...
This is rather long, but I think it's funny... so keep reading! ;) Lost in Costa Rica Episode 1: Let me start by saying that Babel is an awesome and thought provoking film and I highly recommend it. I went to see Babel in San Jose with a ...
Pura Vida
Ticos (what Costa Ricans call themselves) have a saying, ¨Pura Vida¨. It literally means ¨Pure Life¨, or take it easy. They also have another saying, ¨Tranquillo/a¨, meaning calm or peace. Life goes at a much slower pace here. It was nice to have ...