Jaco
Travel Blogs from Jaco, Costa Rica
Hey guys, this is your lucky day!!!
... and the Nicoya peninsula. Only an hour's ride or so across the ocean by speedboat. I'm in the surfer town of Jaco, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Also one of the most popular beach towns for holidaying Ticos, due to it's proximity to San Jose, the ...
Pacific: Ghetto buses, sunrises, Dustin, an Se Van
... , buy a couple of tickets and watch as the nicest bus in costa pulls away...only to be followed by the nastiest bus in costa(see pic) about 15 minutes later....and some of the shadiest people I've ever seen crawl off this thing...I mean the nice white, ...
Rain, Rain, Rain
... Panama, but all our efforts to contact shipping agents there proved fruitless, and we finally stumbled upon a shipping opportunity directly from Costa Rica. On June 2nd our van will be loaded on to "MV Libra Leader", a Japanese vessel that delivers new ...
i hate being burnt!!
... out. we ended up at a bar/restaurant, where we just had a beer, well he had beer, ladies drank for free, so i had some costa rican liquir called guara, (its made with sugercane) and played pool for a while. then we headed to another bar called ´the ...
Thailand??
... from that its a pretty chill area the beach is nice some nice waves for surfing if i surfed towns a lil price but so is costa rica, I'd say close to double if not more the price of anywhere else in central America. So last night i had some beers with ...
Hanging in Haco
There was a swell the past few days, and that meant some nasty rides...particularly when you don't really know what you're doing! Fortunately, yesterday was a good day for the old man on the sea - no wipeouts, much easier time getting past the break, and ...
Shadows last leg..
... struggled to find information about shipping the bike as things weren't done in a hurry here. The logistics to getting the bike from Costa Rica to the states for shipping was becoming confusing. I thought being on the Pacific it would be easier to get to ...
Party Like a Rock Star
... to go to Sumners sisters apartment (Gwendolyn) which is like a 3 blocks away in the most expensive place in Jaco. This street runs right along the ocean and is full of super nice hotels, restaurants, casinos and ...
Surfing
In drumul spre cel mai vizitat parc national al Costa Ricai, Manuel Antonio, am oprit in Jaco, faimos pentru surfing. Nu intentionam sa ramanem peste noapte, insa oboseala m-a cam doborat de la trezitul la 6 dimineata si strabatarea la volan pe ...
Surfing in the C.R.
... shop told us that bus comes around 9-9:30 a.m., so we hurried to the bus statio. But just as I have learned to expect here in Costa Rica, the bus did not show up until 10:30 a.m. We pretty much spent 1.5 hours in the heat, watching for the bus when we ...
La Rana Bocona
... and seems to be enjoying herself heartily. A couple of weeks ago i managed to get away for 2 nights to the beach resort town of Jaco, which is about an hour and a half North from here. They say that it is what Quepos will end up like in 10 years ...
end of a nice, but painful week
... stopped at almost every beach we came to and they just kept getting nicer and nicer. the was was clear, not like jaco and the beaches were white. it was soo unbelievable and what i would truly call paradise.....at least until the disasters ...
Its fun to speak 5 languages!
... and I would continue to hang out the rest of the night and the following day. I met a girl from canada who's traveling around costa rica for a couple of months. There was a girl from Buenos Aires, but I forgot to get her contact information (for when I ...
Tarzan
... I could really fly without worrying about anything else - I highly recommend trying this activity when available. After that, I ventured into Jaco for some souvenir shopping and to look at surf boards - just kidding! The town is difficult to describe, ...
Jaco
Well got to Jaco in the end. A three hour mini bus from the hotel. Jaco is a small quite touristy town, full of surf shops and bars/restuarants. Its absolutely boiling at the moment in the low 30's. It feels like I'm melting constantly! However its ...
Surfs Up
... at Jaco. We were hot, sweaty, and dying of heat exhaustion, but the second we stepped off the bus our moods were brightened. Jaco is such a welcoming area. It was sunny and warm, had streets full of surf shops and little restaurants, and the smell of salt ...
Jaco- Busy Party Beach
... you so loud?" After we got up Bev was still talking about the damn rooster and how crazy he was. Why, she wanted to know, do Costa Ricans need so many roosters? One is enough! Devin went to work while Bev and I packed up the van. Just as we were ...
Jaco Beach
Jaco Beach is on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is an up and coming hotspot. After the 6 hour bus ride, we are going Direct Bus from now on. We stopped every five minutes to let someone off and on. It was crazy. Jaco was ...
Costa Rica update and photos
... little USB memory stick so thats my excuse for it taking so long. Nothing to do with laziness and stagnation of course! ;) Costa Rica so far has been pretty interesting and its been great being back on the pacific coast with all the sunsets and ...
Photos from the past
Some photos from the past. Tulum ruin, the small island in Belize and the cave and trek though ...
and now...something completely different
... to keep them save we have downloaded them here.. As you might have thought, we didnt actually go to New York and back to Costa Rica during the night. Sorry to spoil the track of this wonderfull and addictive travel pod! (not our quote....it was the ...
The Sun still exists!
... cool by being in the surfers paradise. Anyway. Today is a beach bumming day and we will just rest in order to make an early attack to the last national park of Costa Rica which we will visit before our return to San Jose...Carara. Cheerio until ...
Today is nice
HI everyone. There´s not too much to report here. The last couple of weeks have been really good. Jeff is liking school. And I am not, but I´m starting to feel better about my spanish and my host mom says that I understand more than I did a week ago. I ...
Reality bites!
... familiar place. That was the first time I had let my small day bag be in public and out of my grasp since arriving in Costa Rica, it contained my passport and RTW ticket, my Ipod and digi camera and other stuff less valuable but still important for my ...
and i thought i couldn´t get any luckier!
... , i just jumped in a cab and made my way to ´kangaroo hotel´which is where i had planned on staying when i first got to costa. on the way there we passed through the whole town, and when i say whole, i mean the one street of ...

