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Tamarindo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Surfs Up!!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Karaoke at the Hotel Kalifornia Lounge.
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
I just keep waiting....
This is a top pick! ... our amazing turtle night in San Juan del Sur, we woke up the next morning for a travel day that took us to Tamarindo, in Costa Rica. Tamarindo is another Pacific beach town, although this one is much more built up and touristy, in the sense that it ...
Turtles, Tea Leafs and Toothache
... 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 was nice, though ...
Birthday...Wooooo
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
Tamarindo was our first stop in Costa Rica after, a place we fully intended to find surf, sun and fun! While we did find fun, we also found TONS of rain. Like heavy crazy rainforest type rain, the type that turns the streets into ...
Tourist police....and a new beach!
... anywhere. 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 ...
hahaha, girl fight!!!
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
... , I helped 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 ...
Tamarindo
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, ...
Tamarindo...the beach disconnect
... 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. ...
Lightening and Laughter
... an hour, and then its gone. We figured it had just passed, since the clouds were dark around the edges. We walked north along Tamarindo Beach to where the river feeds into the ocean. we stripped down and got in to play with the current. it was shallow ...
COSTA RICA
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
... 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!!
... 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 ...
A Fool and His Backpack Are Soon Parted
... 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
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!!
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 ...
Most Popular Pacific Beach
We continue to work our way down the Pacific coast of the country with our next stop being Tamarindo. It has the best beach we have see so far during our trip, warm water and some good waves for body surfing. The sand is a brown-white and very fine ...
What an eventful week.....
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 ...
Surf, Beach and Coconuts
Tamarindo certainly has a different atmosphere about it compared to the other parts of Costa Rica that we visited. A real surfers town it's busier and more commercialised, with a lot more of a 'Western' feel. Still a stunning beach, just a few more people ...
The Milk Bottel
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.
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 ...
Surf´s (Really Not) Up!
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 ...
Don't go near the water.
I was the first one on the beach this morning. I went out at 5.30 and got my first good look at the Pacific. It was very warm! The soft sand away from the water was literally covered in tracks I took to be iguanas. On the hard sand were tracks of ...