Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Wildlife of both the animal and human variety...
Mar 3, 2006

... , thai and mediterranean food. I had some killer chicken in yellow curry with rice and a couple Bavarias - a dark beer made in Costa Rica. Afterwards, I headed over to the Sunset Bar, which is owned by the same people. The Sunset Bar had a good reggae ...

More monkeys on the road to Manzanillo
Mar 4, 2006

... sleeping in... Breakfast was great and afterwards I decided to check out bicycle rentals to check out the road south of Puerto Viejo - to Manzanillo, a small town about 13km from town. The weather was excellent today - sunny and warm but not too hot ...

A coinflip for the coast...
Mar 2, 2006

... of coast, nestled between two national parks and backed by thick, lush rain forest. Second, the people. Puerto Viejo has a very heavy afro-costa rican inlfuence, and it can be seen everywhere - from the Carribbean style cooking to the Rastas hanging out ...

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Aug 13, 2006

... David held his breath. On the way back I discovered that it was possible to brake by ´pedalling backwards...unfortunately we were on the flat at this point. Our last day in Puerto Viejo was spent on the beach feeling very hot/swimming...it is a hard life.

More Caribbean chilling
Jul 11, 2007 (5 photos)

... beaches, we thought it only proper that we should make one final stop before hightailing it over the border to Panama. Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is a mere 45 minutes south of Cahuita, so we enjoyed a good breakfast and sleep in before catching an 11.00 ...

Day 3: Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge
Mar 8, 2005 (4 photos)

The town of Manzanillo, located about a 15-minute bus ride from Puerto Viejo, houses a wildlife refuge that is home to about a zillion species of plants and animals. We set out early for a guided tour of the park - the first of many opportunities on the ...

Day 2: Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Mar 7, 2005 (5 photos)

... had settled into our bus ride, and the water looked so appealing I was ready to dive right in. We arrived in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca around lunchtime. The town itself is a hippie haven, full of people - Ticos and foreigners alike - listening to reggae ...

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
May 16, 2006 (11 photos)

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How to get jumped for $4.00
Apr 13, 2007 (5 photos)

... on the crushed corpses.  It was ridiculous. My last story about Costa Rica took place in the last town I visited there, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, where one night I was returning from a club with a couple girls from my hostel.  A guy rides up ...

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Limon
Jun 28, 2007 (3 photos)

... up with friends in La Fortuna, Costa Rica before the wedding of a mutual friend of Aimee and I in Tamarindo. Heading to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica is just the place to go if you are hunting hippies or looking for a slow pace non-rushed location with many ...

Another Caribbean beach town. It's a hard life.
Apr 1, 2007

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is more developed than Cahuita but the attractions are the same with the beach and the national parks. It was also a lot busier than Cahuita.  The first seven guest houses I tried were full.  The best offer I got was ...

never trust a monkey
Jan 11, 2004

... . So we spent the morning washing off our rain flies in the shower. Good thing we put them up. Today rained most of the day; we took a bus to a little surf hole called puerto viejo a few km south. PURA VIDA, life is good, time is up, gotta go. ta-ta

Finally..the beach
Nov 13, 2005 (7 photos)

... beach..... I have been land locked for the past 2 months and it has been great to stick my feet in the sand! Puerto Viejo is on the Caribbean side of Costa rica and as soon as we (met up with some friends i met in Antigua)arrived, the sun came out for the ...

Um paraíso de surfistas, rasta man e hippies
Apr 4, 2007 (1 photos)

Day trip até Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, céu cheio de nuvens ameaçadoras, na vila cheia de lojas para turistas com artesanato local, algumas coisas interessantes. Depois relax na praia com lago natural junto à ...

Zala D drajver
Jan 10, 2006

Eva: Preziveli dni z avtom :) Po vseh prevozenih cestah, luknjah, rekah in plazah se lahko koncno pohvalim, da sem prezivela zalino voznjo. Medtem, ko sem jaz bila NAVIGATOR, BARTENDER, FOTOGRAF, ISKALEC DIVJIH ZIVALI in ISKALEC LUKENJ (na cesti - da ne ...

Puerto Viejo
Jun 27, 2008

... 've seen and done everything there and it was time to move on, so yesterday we came 30 minutes down the coast to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, which is a bigger town but with gorgeous beaches. It's near the border with Panama so we might go across either by ...

Plans changed...still in Costa Rica
Feb 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... way to Panama City over the course of the next week instead of one long trip. Well our first stop was a little beach town called Puerto Viejo on the Carribean coast. We were planning to skip it and it has turned out to be one of the best places we have ...

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Oct 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... . Just hand them a blunt object and they can make due on the river. From the raft trip we were dropped in Puerto Viejo, a small surfing village, at our hostel Rocking J's, which is basically a commune of hammocks on the water. The Canadian couple we ...

Back to Puerto Viejo
Dec 19, 2005 (1 photos)

Ah Puerto how I missed thee. IF the first trip there was awesome then my trip back was unbelievable, yeah. More to come . . .

Adios a Panama, Hola a Costa Rica!
Oct 17, 2003 (1 photos)

Am on a bit of a high as I write this, have just had the best day!! We arrived yesterday in Costa Rica into Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, still on the Caribbean coast. We had really enjoyed our last few days in Panama, which I will recount later (no doubt ...

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 6
May 7, 2009 (6 photos)

... ) introduced us to them a couple days ago.  He was sitting out by a tree on a break and we gave him a phrase book, "Costa Rican Spanish."  He said he wants to learn English and I could tell he was very grateful for the small gift.  It's hard ...

Puerto Viejo Dia Dos y Tres
Dec 11, 2005

... that was used by pirates to store treasures. Eventually we made it to the beach there Gina told me of her crazy adventures in Puerto Viejo. She has owned a restaurant and a bar here. She explained to me how people have migrated to Costa Rica. Most came ...

Puerto Viejo De Talamanca Dia Uno
Dec 10, 2005 (1 photos)

I left early in the morning for the Atlantic coast. In Limon I would have to make a choice of Chauita or Puerto Viejo De Talamanca. I met some Germans Chris and his girlfriend whose name I still can´t pronounce on the bus and after speaking to them on their ...

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 9
May 10, 2009 (4 photos)

After being out all night, the after effects were in full force. Jose was still sleeping in the hammock on the lanai when I got up.  I went to the store for water, soda and cigarettes.  When I got back, Ed was still sleeping and Jose had ...

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 10
May 11, 2009 (5 photos)

... pack.  The withdrawals are starting to being and we haven't even left.  We decided to enjoy one last dinner in Puerto Viejo.  We went for our favorite, the ham and pineapple pizza.  We shopped for a few souvenirs for our apartment and ...

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
Jun 21, 2006

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, CR

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 7
May 8, 2009 (8 photos)

... crop duster plane spraying the banana fields, a very modern looking plane too I must add.  Once we arrived back in Puerto Viejo, the clouds had remained.  It was humid from the rain that filled the morning hours, it wasn't beach weather ...

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 5
May 6, 2009 (6 photos)

It was yet another beautiful sunrise.  The rain last night brought out frogs and you name it, all creatures were roaming around.  It would have been about 5:45 a.m.  The decision as to what to do today?  No itinerary was ...

Panama here I come!
Aug 2, 2007 (6 photos)

My Austrian friend from Tortuguero made it down here and we´ve been hanging out along with another guy I met from Germany. This here are really slow moving which is great but there not a whole lot to do down here. The hostel we are staying at has a big ...

Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica ... Day 4
May 5, 2009 (5 photos)

... quite what we would have enjoyed but the beaches are stunning.  On our drive back to Puerto Viejo, we say a BLUE MORPHO, a beautiful butterfly known in Costa Rica.  We made another stop at the local grocery store (keep in mind it is a ...