Puntarenas, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Hey guys, this is your lucky day!!!
Dec 13, 2004 (4 photos)

... good, but as soon as the weekend is over it gets quiet and a bit boring. The beaches are not particularly nice, to be Costa Rica, and the town got little atmosphere. A bit like an US suburb or small city with strip malls and fast food chains dotting the ...

No paradise found.
Dec 16, 2004 (15 photos)

It's like a cheesy Hollywood movie. I have just arrived in beautiful Manuel Antonio with it's stunning beaches, where big surf crash in from the Pacific ocean. I'm walking down the beach in an incredible fiery orange sunset, when I spot Gabriella, the ...

The Great Kapok Tree
Feb 22, 2007 (4 photos)

Hi, So we went for a 2hr jungle  walk this morning. I was hoping to see more but it was still pretty neat. We heard but did not see howler monkeys. We saw 3 tucans and a few other neat birds whose names I don't know as the guide only knew the ...

Pura Vida.
Dec 10, 2004 (3 photos)

Pura Vida or Pure Life, you hear it everywhere you go in Costa Rica, from smiling Ticos and Ticas, the locals around here. The country is absolutely beautiful, with amazing palm fringed white beaches dotting two different oceans, heaps of national parks, ...

The Cloud Forests of Monteverde and Santa Elena
Nov 1, 2004 (5 photos)

... only a few hours away. After many STRONG recommendations by locals, we decided to rent a 4X4 to journey to Monteverde, Costa Rica's Cloud Forest. An adventure is such an understatement for what awaited us. I will let Mark describe the road conditions, ...

Finally we made it.
Feb 17, 2007

Hi all, Well we made it into Costa Rica 2days ago. We were in late due to a flight delay. We arrived at our Hostal and crashed for the night. The next morning we were to leave at 9am to head south (4hrs on 2 buses). Brett had other plans. She woke up at ...

Monkey Mania in Manuel Antonio
Oct 27, 2004 (12 photos)

... the Monkeys, some people just don't get it. Is it any wonder our world continues to sink. We, human beings, just don't get it. Costa Rica at last. It has been a long time coming but we've finally arrived in Central America. We took the Red Eye out of ...

Monteverde
Oct 11, 2006 (9 photos)

... , the first we have had for about 3 weeks (just to clarify, we have showered but it has been cold) - bliss. Because Costa Rica is far more touristy than its neighbors our options we far more varied. Santa Elena and Monteverde's attraction is the Cloud ...

Tooth Fairy Visits
Feb 21, 2007 (3 photos)

... is rich! ( although a few years ago it might have been in the millions!) We are busy trying to  finalizing our planning for Costa Rica. We are hoping to go on a hiking tour of the rainforest tomorrow and to a butterfly farm the next day. We have ...

Cloud forest and adrenaline
Apr 11, 2007

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Ahhhh
Feb 19, 2007 (4 photos)

Hi All, We are having a very relaxing time here although it is very humid. We walked up to a waterfall today and I was just dripping with sweat when we arrived. I couldn't wait to get in. There was a nice place to sit where the water just rushed ...

Rain, Rain, Rain
May 29, 2004 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

jaco
Aug 3, 2003 (3 photos)

Aug 2: Aug 3: ....will write later

Walking on Water
Feb 25, 2007 (5 photos)

So we took one last trip to the beach today. We had a nice time playing in the surf and walking on water (what can we say?). We are looking forward to packing up and heading to Manuel Antonio tomorrow. The kids are really going to miss their friends Ollie ...

Christmas in the Bad Lands....Smells Like Fish
Jan 3, 2008 (8 photos)

So our time in Bocas del Torro was pretty cool before Christmas - we had a pretty good routine of heading to the beach, cooking dinner with some other travellers in the hostel and repeating.  Then we ran into our Australian friends who we met in ...

Surf Camp with Steve
Aug 15, 2003

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Small-town Costa Rica (w/ p.u.)
Jul 26, 2005 (2 photos)

Ojochal is a teeny little town, not even in the Lonely Panic if you can believe it. It has all the necessary amenities including a French baker man, an internet cafe, and a grocery store. It doesnīt have many luxuries such as telephone service, power 100 ...

The Jerk Chickenīs revenge + eternal rain
Sep 5, 2007 (9 photos)

In the bus from Cahuita to San Jose, we saw more of the Costa Rica we came to see: beautiful lush rain forest, mountains with cascades, bamboo as high a NYC buildings ... We had decided to skip San Jose and head straight to the Cloud Forest of Santa Elena ...

La Reserva Natural Absoluta de Cabo Blanco
Dec 28, 2001

Getting up around 8am, me and Juliette took the bus to the Cabo Blanco National Park to do some hiking. The road was unpaved and the bus reminded me of Honduras border bus, jumping up and down every time we hit a pot hole. On few occasions, the bus had to ...

Spare the Soggy Shoes
May 13, 2006

A few hours later past the crazy spider monkey, we came upon our second river crossing. Making our way through the shallow stream, we settled our packs on the other side and sat down to catch our breath and have a snack. Have you heard the story of ...

i hate being burnt!!
Feb 21, 2007

... 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 īthe ...

Sol
Jul 18, 2009 (1 photos)

... . Waar gaan we heen.....we willen zon. Gelukkig was de PC in de hostel weer gemaakt en konden het weather forecast checken voor Costa Rica. De enige hoek waar het nog droog was...en zou blijven...was het gebied van Montezuma. In een uur zaten we in de auto ...

Of Peanuts and Goblins
May 14, 2006

Squirrel Monkeys seem to be extremely social. They're no bigger than a cat, and their round heads are perfectly proportioned to their bodies. Their eyes are round and bright, and their button noses give them a comical "peanuts" sort of a look. They cling ...

Seaside Jungle Adventure
Jul 5, 2009 (19 photos)

... cream.   While we were in the store, we saw the missionaries from our church.  One of the elders was from Costa Rica and the other was from Nebraska.  We talked to them for a minute and purchased their groceries for them.  We ate ...

Can't never could, and won't never will...
Oct 25, 2007 (11 photos)

... of Nicoya.  We would then transfer to another bus that would deliver us to Monteverde.     After arriving in Puntarenas, we all settled in for a much needed lunch.  We found out Junko was on vacation from Tokyo, and that Gloria ...

Smallsville
Jul 23, 2006

Domincal (permanent population 300) is a small, still somewhat undeveloped town on the southern pacific coast. The road to get here was comically rough, muddy, bumpy and involved driving across a small river (without a bridge). In Quepos, Domincal was ...

Puckered Lips and Wrinkled Brows
May 13, 2006

A little over 5 kilometers into our hike, we heard something that sounded like cantaloupes being thrown from the treetops. With a short pause and a look around we discovered that it was a family of white faced capuchin monkeys heading off in the opposite ...

In the Heart of the Jungle
May 13, 2006

In the heart of the jungle, the trees soar to dizzying heights above your head and create a canopy of filtered sunlight. Their trunks grow down, thick and ancient, deep into the soggy mud, with gnarled roots and knotted appendages twisting their way ...

The Jungle Book
May 13, 2006

For an hour we sloshed along through the gummy mud and pouring rain, leaving the capuchin monkeys behind us. The shower continued unabated, and along the pathway pools of brown water filled up and gradually trickled over into one another, forming muddy ...

That Monkey was Crazy!
May 13, 2006

Spider monkeys are oddly threatening in a fuzzy kind of a way. Their dark brown fur is tinged with a rusty orange hue. They hang from tree limbs with dark, naked palms and, when emboldened, their brown leathery faces contort into menacing grimaces. The ...