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- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
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- 3,773,057
- Population
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Travel Blogs from Samara, Costa Rica
I alone.
This is a top pick! I am sitting with my journal on a beautiful white sandy beach, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. I am finally on my own again, traveling solo. It kind of feels good. It's day 64 of my trip, and I have been constantly traveling with other backpackers ...
A Riot of Colour!
This is a top pick! No words are needed this time. Enjoy the tropical flowers of Central ...
Riding on buses beside chickens
Three buses from Tamarindo (with chickens sitting beside us) and we arrived at Playa Guiones. The town is a little like the rest of them, one main dirt road with a mini market and a few surf shops, filled with American tourists. We needn't had bothered ...
Last Stop on the Peninsula
Getting here from our last location was not easy! If you take the local bus it makes 3 stops with 3 transfers and would take us about 3/4 of a day to arrive. The final result was to just hit the taxi stop early in the morning and get a ride. We ...
Surfing
... and transfer from bus to bus until I finally arrived 4 hours late for my class that afternoon... oops! But as always everyone in Costa Rica is tranquilo and it was no problem to rearrange things. Well these next two weeks will be my last in Samara so ...
Adios, amigos y amigas de Samara Beach
... waiting and crowded chicken buses. So, tonite. I rest after 12 nights of Livin' La Vida Loca, Pura Vida style. I love this trip to Costa Rica thus far. It's not the most pleasant trip I've taken in my life, but I just love it. I love ...
Playa Sámara
Hola! Kort uppdatering for att visa att jag lever. Tog mig fran Montezuma i fredags och hamnade i har. Var tvungen att aka en javla omvag(9h) med lokala bussar da jordbavningar och regnsasong forstort de flesta vagarna. Det var lite mer av ett aventyr an ...
Surfing in Samara
... either side by cow pastures and open fields. The next day we walked into town and down to the beach. This area in Costa Rica is famous for its surfing conditions and there are numerous places offering lessons. I decided to go for one ...
Samara Beach, Party begins
... from all over the world. Mainly, the US, Canadians and Swiss, but also Germany, Holland, and of course many Costa Ricans because I am a native spanish speaker. Tu sabes? Its cool how alot of travelers bond and exchange salutations, ideas, ...
Seaside Relaxation
Ah Samara, the last frontier. What a sleepy, peaceful town it was. We arrived by private shuttle which took less than four hours as opposed to the public transport route which would have taken about 8 hours. For once being sick paid off for me! Once ...
Days 30-36: Surf´s Up Dude
... off the walls, and the beds were super sketchy......but it was cheap and close to the beach. This morning, we had an early beach walk before having breakfast with Robbie and heading back to our Costa Rican home......we´re super excited for pastry time. ...
Home at last... at least for a little while!
... get together and play soccer on the beach and you have to do to fit in is just let'm know that you know the unofficial Costa Rica phrase, Pura Vida (Pure Life). The school I'm studying at is awesome too. The teachers are great, the walk is only five ...
Samara - I'm not even supposed to be here.
... a blast cruising up and down the coast. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/video/video.php?v=88819528549 I'd go back to Samara in a second, but dont tell Tracy because I told her I was huddled in a corner, rocking and humming to myself the whole ...
Gyrocopter flights
... We flew about 75 - 100 meters above the ground and had a wonderful view of egrets and crocodiles in the river. We flew over Samara and then looped back north to the hotel. The next evening I flew again and I would have flown a lot more but it ...
Playa Samara
This past weekend, we went to Playa Samara. The bus ride there took about 4 hours so we didn't get there until almost midnight and it was kind of close quarters in the bus but I slept most of the way. When we got there we just kind of hung out for a while ...
Super Samara
Our entire last few days has consisted of napping, eating and swimming. Not much to say really, except I dreamed Laura was possessed. That freaked me out. I found the playsuit (macacinho) today that I wanted. The store gave me a matching ring. The ...
Getting out of San Jose...off to Samara
We got to samara hooray! When we got there we rented this beautiful house that we got a killer deal on. We stayed only two nights then we went back to Manuel Antonio for the third time...but we wanted our friend chelsea to see all the wildlife ...
This is the life.
... (hurray for nice surfer dudes). For those of you who care (Jules and Bill) it is a 7'3" Carton (he is a famous shaper in Costa Rica out of Jaco) and I must say I rather enjoy the board. Well, since then I've fallen into a rather enjoyable routine here ...
Wednesday of Final Week
Well, this is our final week in Costa Rica. We have decided to return early. This is the longest we have been gone from home and we feel out of touch with things. We will fly back on Saturday instead of next ...
June 6, 2008
... some sun we went back down the beach to get some lunch. We met two couples at the restaurant, they both had houses in Costa Rica, one had residency and the other had applied. It took a long time to get. It was interesting talking with ...
TGIF
... here, both at night and I hope this continues since this is their rainy season. Another beautiful day in paradise! I think I love Costa Rica better than Phuket, Thailand. Yes, that is Carolyn speaking. It is so beautiful. I'll try to include a ...
June 8, 2008
... a lovely day, we didn't have any rain and the Pacific Ocean was even warmer than yesterday. June 8th Today we moved into Samara, right down town on Main Street. We are now staying at were the school is held. Tomorrow will be our first day of ...
Fine Costa Rica
Spostandoci da Santa Elena verso la costa su strade sterrate tra le montagne è stato subito chiaro come mai Costa Rica viene chiamata la Svizzera dell'America Centrale. Oltre ad essere la nazione più benestante ci sono zone che ricordano esattamente i ...
Samara, Costa Rica
... on the bow of our little snorkel boat - YUM! La Fortuna & Monteverde - Next, we went to the northern part of Costa Rica to the cloud forests. We hiked in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and saw more wildlife while hiking through dense jungle. ...
Sun in Samara
... so we don´t bother venturing out. tomorrow morning we say goodbye to anne and michael and get on a plane to panama city. costa rica has been a nice end to the trip. even though it slightly more americanised and more expensive, we enjoyed our time ...
Graduation day
Hello darling people. I hope everyone is doing wonderful. We're in Playa Samara on the pacific coast. It's beautiful here. It's a little over cast and rainy pretty much every day but it's still warm. We've been here since monday, we've been going to a ...