Tamarindo, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Surfs Up!!!
Jul 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... place and sit still for awhile...and that sitting is preferably done on a beach. The location this time is Playa Tamarindo on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. This lovely stretch of speckled sand dotted with small hotels unfolds around a large bay with gentle ...

A Taste Of The Pacific Coast
Jul 14, 2007

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Karaoke at the Hotel Kalifornia Lounge.
Dec 6, 2004 (6 photos)

... beach (Playa Conchal) and in a karaoke bar mostly frequented by locals. As well as in the more resort like Playa Tamarindo, with all it's American package tourists, backpackers, surfers and expats. We heard some terrible karaoke, and I almost grabbed the ...

June 27-29: Sunsets, Cops and Swiss Boys
Jun 27, 2003 (5 photos)

... , know countries, know poeple, let your memory be your travel bag"! Alexander Solzhenitsyn June 20: Caught the 3:30 bus to Tamarindo from Alfaro...the ride ended up taking us 7 hours b/c the driver kept stopping along the way to pick people up(so ...

Birthday...Wooooo
Jun 18, 2007

Well I'm 19! How bloody weird! Have made it as far as Costa Rica and am currently in a town called Tamarindo and it's like a little piece of America. There's plenty of fantastic hotels which I can't hazard a guess at how much they cost per night but then ...

Drenched in Tamarindo
Sep 1, 2008 (5 photos)

... to be stopped so easily though.  We have travelled 6  hours on crowded bus to get to Tamarindo with high hopes to bodyboard some of Costa Rica´s best waves, and whether or not the sun was shining and the rivers were flowing sewage  ...

Tourist police....and a new beach!
Feb 15, 2008

... . Such is the description afforded to La Fortuna, and the reason why, two days after arrival, we ve left for Playa Tamarindo. The luring attraction to La Fortuna is of course Volcan Arenal. It was too cloudy during our brief stay to view the entire ...

hahaha, girl fight!!!
Mar 16, 2007

so, as it turns out, wherever you go there will be drama involving boys.  haha, lets just get right to it, my friend ashlee and i  pretty much  got jumped!!  haha.  it goes like this, ashlee was  totally into this guy ...

Getting There
Nov 16, 2007

... him with his English. The more Imperial though, the less and less I was taking in. I asked Gustobo about crime and robbery in Tamarindo.. He pretty much scared the crap out of me and told me not to go out at night. So I did just that.. We ended up ...

Tamarindo
Jul 7, 2007 (2 photos)

Arrived in Tamarindo on Saturday.  We were thinking of staying in Liberia for a night, but we got there and it really looked as if there wasn´t a lot to see, so we ploughed on to our new home for 2wks Mel has to register with the school tomorrow, then ...

Playa Tamarindo - Our Endless Summer
Sep 28, 2009 (10 photos)

Story to come.  Basically Dave tries to learn to surf...

Tamarindo...the beach disconnect
Dec 3, 2006 (3 photos)

... and when I finally was able to catch a wave or two, I realized that I could benefit from lessons. Monday morning we left Tamarindo in a rental car, and began our drive south towards Nosara beach. As soon as I sat behind the wheel, my vacation began. I ...

COSTA RICA
Apr 10, 2005 (106 photos)

We were married and honeymooned in Costa Rica in March/April, 2005. We actually honeymooned before our wedding.  While researching CR, I learned that many restaurants/bars do not serve alcohol during the Easter weekend, which was exactly ...

First week and part of the second
Jul 17, 2008

... off. But we have noticed if you talk to them and try to be friendly they will give you a better deal. Also no one in Costa Rica can drive worth crap. They dont care about the stop lights, lanes or anything. Last week I rode home from a bar with Tuto, ...

lots has happened!!
Apr 11, 2007

... and we have lunch and get everything worked out and then go on our way, and they ask where i am going and when i tell them tamarindo, they luckily are going right by there, so they end up driving me all the way to tamarindo!! i can´t get over how lucky i ...

A Fool and His Backpack Are Soon Parted
Oct 8, 2000

... and toothpaste, and a pad and pencil), and off we went. Once that was all taken care of, Alex and I headed out to Tamarindo. For the rookie surfer, this was a much kinder beach. The break was longer, the waves were smaller, and the sand felt softer ...

Vamos a la Playa Tamarindo
Jan 28, 2009 (3 photos)

A jsme na dalsi skvele plazi. Je tu nadherne, slunce sviti, jidlo skvele, more teplejsi nez v Nikarague, az na to, ze je to tu o hodne drazsi. Male pivko za 3 USD je trochu moc, takze tady tolik parit nebudu, coz nebude vubec na skodu. :) Pocital jsem si ...

reunited!!
Apr 14, 2007

so, it took me a couple of days to meet up with jenna, who, if you have forgotten, i met in tamarindo last time i was here.  it is awesome. we have just been relaxing on the beach and enjoying the sun. it turns out that she even has her own little ...

Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Jul 6, 2007

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What an eventful week.....
Jun 22, 2007

Well this week has been anything but. Tamarindo has turned out to be quite a cool place to hang out...as I've ended up staying like 5 or 6 days now. My birthday turned out to be be well fun, drinking games and then a bar called reysol. Have been with these ...

The Milk Bottel
Nov 18, 2007

Okay so the place the surfer guy took me to was not called brown cow but Milk Bottel Hostel and has a serious cow theme. This hostel is great 8$ a night and packed with tones of great people. Asaf my roommate I met for the first time yesturday, ...

Lidt om hvad jeg laver for tiden.
Oct 7, 2008 (117 photos)

Hej alle lidt nydt fra mig. Her går det stadig godt, jeg er ved at have lært skolen og byen at kende, og ikke mindst de andre studerende. Vi er gået i gang med undervisningen, så jeg skal lige vænne mig til at lave noget igen! ;) Klasserne er inddelt efter ...

Surf´s (Really Not) Up!
Jun 10, 2005

Had a bit of a disaster today. The weather was still bad but we only had one day to go surfing so we decided to go anyway. We´d been in the sea about half an hour when a nasty wave knocked me off my board. You´re meant to protect yourself with your ...

Tamarindo... home of the Gringos
Jan 11, 2007

So here we are in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.  Hard to believe we are still in CR.  It is pretty much all foreigners here on vacation, trying to get away from winter back home.  As the most recent Lonely Planet guidebook says... it is a bunch of ...

Crossing Costa
Nov 23, 2007

... . As I begin the second week of my trip I have started to notice that I have spent all my time around Tamarindo and would like to see more of Costa Rica. So I have made plan´s with 2 American guys and 2 German girls to to travel Across Costa Rica. First ...

Relaxing in Tamarindo
Jun 2, 2008 (5 photos)

... town on the northern part of the peninsula.   So after 3 bus rides, that proved surprisingly painless, we arrived in Tamarindo to clouds, but at least no rain. Tamarindo is quite a strange place, it´s quite small but is very much geared to ...

Turtles, Tea Leafs and Toothache
Nov 23, 2009 (5 photos)

... as a short hop whereas back home that would get me to Edinburgh! All those mega journeys in Argentina etc. Arrived at Costa Rica backpackers at 8pm and greeted by moody, surly staff in supposedly the best hostel in town. The place wasnice, though it ...

Being stuck in the rain...
Sep 4, 2008

So I'm seriously stuck in the rain in Tamarindo!! They've cancelled flights from this area because of the rain (forget about diving and surfing..) and even though it is good for my health (neck) to lie down and relax and sleep a lot, it is not good for my ...

Søstrene Hvid fortæller - part 1
Dec 25, 2008 (192 photos)

Costa Rica tour 2008 Vores rejse til Costa Rica startede torsdag d. 18/12 kl. 9.30 fra Herning banegård. Godt læsset med kufferter kørte far os til banegården hvor mormor stod klar til at vinke farvel. Vi fik os placeret i toget, og turen til KBH gik stille ...

surfing safari... (and snake safari too)
Aug 21, 2006

... ok. it is expensive and has a burger king, pizza hut and subway. ugh. i guess there are much better places to go in costa rica. next time. one other costa rica story i can't resist telling. so i was lounging at some low tables on the beach taking a ...