Turrialba, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Jorge versus Turrialba
Jun 30, 2006 (15 photos)

... and asked us if we needed a ride down. Two very nice and very gay Spaniard men ended up by giving us a lift to Turrialba! It worked out perfectly considering Jorge and I had just realized moments before that we only had 9, 000 colones left (not enough to ...

JJ on a mountain bike. Worst Korea move ever!
Nov 24, 2005 (5 photos)

... can see both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from here, but all I could see was a 33 year old man that had had his ass whipped by Costa Rica. But JJ, there is now nowhere to go, but down. He walked around, had a smoke, and told me that he wasn´t happy. It ...

My Own Private Crying Game
Nov 22, 2005 (4 photos)

... I forgot to check for an Adam's apple. From crossdressing to crosscurrents!!!! Saturday morning, it was off to Turrialba, home of Costa Rica's baddest assed rivers, to spend the day rafting the beautiful Lower Pacuare River. The Pacuare is one of the ...

Turriabla
Mar 5, 2009 (25 photos)

... and get our bearings. We found the town to be filled with pleasant people, informative road signs(non-existent elsewhere in Costa Rica) and pretty scenery. After checking out a few hotels, we settled in at the interamericana. nice enough, right price, hot ...

The female Tarzan
Jul 26, 2006 (17 photos)

... a tough woman like myself. But the river was very nice and the environment fantastic. I am very impressed with the tourism situation in Costa Rica- Pacuare is one of the most visited rafting rivers in the world, but it was impossible for me to find any ...

Somos Locos
Nov 15, 2009 (3 photos)

... real culture at the local soccer game.  I arrived to a packed house as the pictures will show.  It was Turrialba against the town over.  Tensions rose towards the end.  This barn burner ended with the other teams goalie passing ...

White water rafting!
Oct 16, 2007 (12 photos)

3 buses later we arrived and immediately liked this town.  Pretty and everyone is happy out!  We stayed in Innes house- she owns the 'other' Spanish school in Bocas and has another one here in her home.  She's the most wonderful lady, so ...

Ants and the Mimosa
Nov 12, 2008 (9 photos)

While Ellen toils this week in Toronto I'm in Latin America, a guest of the Costa Rica Tourist Board. Three American journalists and I were invited to do a familiarization trip focusing on extreme sports. I could have written about what it's like to rappel ...

All Forward!
Nov 13, 2009

... do too badly because the group invited me to dinner tonight.  My first meal with a group!!  Tomorrow I think I will stay in Turrialba and try to do a canopy tour.    Again no photos, My camera is charged but I did not want to take it ...

Class IV? Who Needs A Raft?
Jun 20, 2005

... it in plenty of time. The ride was beautiful, as usual, and different scenery than I had seen in other parts of Costa Rica. Rolling grassy plains with random clusters of trees would appear in lieu of the usual dense forest for large parts of the ride. ...

Turrialba - rain and rafting
May 8, 2008 (40 photos)

... on me , no matter what anyone else says :) The scenery on the bus from San Jose was wonderful again - this heartland of Costa Rica the Meseta Central really is picture postcard stuff. Until Thursday I´d been really lucky so far in Costa Rica with the ...

leaving costa rica for panama
Feb 25, 2007

... is the name of the town we're in and its  where tonnes of rafters, kayakers and bikers come to enjoy the wilderness that costa rica has to offer. The rio pacuare is supposed to be one of the most scenic rivers in the world.   So ...

Turrialba
Nov 18, 2006 (3 photos)

... could just pick them up at any shoe store in San Jose, but upon further investigation found out that we had to go to Turrialba and find a guy named Olman. Seemed simple enough. And after getting into town and asking around a little bit we found out all ...

Going To Turrialba
Jul 19, 2007 (49 photos)

Traveling to Turrialba

Costa Rica Day 5
Jun 5, 2009 (14 photos)

Our day started early again....6:15a....another day trip near the town of Turrialba, which is an hour and a half east of San Jose, for Canyoning. There weren’t a whole lot of clients signed up for this activity, in fact, there was only my friend and ...

zurück am CATIE
Oct 19, 2005 (4 photos)

So, sind wieder zrugg am CATIE. De Hurrikan Wilma laht grüesse und laht die jewilige nachmittägliche Rägefäll zu Wasserfäll usarte. S isch ja scho rägeziit, aber im normalfall nöd so extrem. Defür isch d Temperatur super agnähm und die nach-wie-vor-nöd- ...

Español!!
Jul 29, 2007 (20 photos)

After a sickening bus ride through winding coffee-lined roads, we found ourselves in the town of Turrialba in Costa Rica´s central valley.  The idea was to stay with a proper Costa Rican family for one week while attending Spanish classes for 4 hours ...

The life in Turrialba
Jun 11, 2009 (2 photos)

... is a beautiful town, full of forests, kind people, and many rivers, in which you can go rafting, also it has the Turrialba Volcano, that now, after 141 years of dormancy is awaking, and leaving big steam colums each morning, for me it's the best place on ...

Volcano Turrialba
Apr 28, 2007 (5 photos)

Having just booked a bungee for tomo, I decided last night to do a volcano trek today.  Volcano Turrialba was active last week so it seemed like now was the time to go and check it out!  Me and my canadian friend Chris drove up to about 3.3 km ...

Splish-Splash
May 30, 2009 (1 photos)

... and not hear my watch alarm!  The irony of all of this is that we, note I said "we", decided to stay overnight in Turrialba so that we could sleep in later to go rafting the next am, than if we had spent the night in San Jose.  BIG MISTAKE, ...

National Park Guayabo
Jul 19, 2007 (22 photos)

National Park Guayabo

Outdoor adventure capital of Costa Rica
Dec 4, 2008 (6 photos)

... to Turrialba for some canyoneering, white water rafting, and rapelling. We had an awesome hotel overlooking the valley. Many, many coffee plantations and mountains as far as the eye could see. The town was pretty much your average Costa Rica working town.

local hospital
Apr 23, 2007 (1 photos)

... friends quite a bit.  I hope everyone is doin' well and keeping safe out there.  If any1 is making a trip to Costa Rica then make sure the transport has SEATBELTS before you go.  I would be distraught if anyone got hurt in this way.  ...

Moving on to Turrialba
Jul 25, 2004 (5 photos)

... besides the risk of being electrocuted (lol), there were a million things about Turrialba that we loved. So, pretty much, Turrialba was a blast, and anyone looking to go to Costa Rica for a while should definitely think about visiting this amazing city.

Turrialba, Costa Rica
Jun 8, 2006

Turrialba, Costa Rica with The West´s

White Knuckling the White Line
May 28, 2009 (4 photos)

... ; Then we headed north towards Turrialba. Every once in awhile as we would go through the villages on the backroads of central Costa Rica, we would pass some female Tica hottie walking down the dusty road and Doug & my cousin would elbow one ...

Workshop
Oct 27, 2005

De Workshop isch super spannend gsi und ich han vill neui Lüüt känne glernt und ganz neui Sache glernt. Au d Präsentation uf Spanisch isch guet gange. Isch amel e gueti Erfahrig und en Erfolg gsi. Bin aber au froh isch er dure. isch mer scho chli uf em Mage ...

Vulkan Turrialba
Jun 30, 2009 (16 photos)

Es kam ein langer Tag im Auto, ueber acht Stunden....um wieder in der Naehe von San Jose zu landen....beim Vulkan Turrialba und Vulkan Irazu. Der Vulkan Turrialba ist aktiv - er raucht die ganze Zeit vor sich hin - ein wunderbares Bild. Untergebracht in ...

Rafting i Rio Pacuare
Dec 12, 2008

Loerdag morgen bars det til Turrialba og rafting paa Rio Pacuare. Selvsagt litt spente paa dette i og med at ingen av oss hadde proevd foer. Men fy flate for et kick!! For spesielt innvidde: Rio Pacuare er en klasse 3-4 elv, dvs en del toeffe stryk, men ...

Rafting the Rio Pacuare
May 6, 2008

... Wow, I think Liz pretty much covered everything. I´ll try to add some little things though. There are a few interesting things about Costa Rica, and traveling in general on this trip. First, the sun rises at about a quarter to 5 and sets at about 530 ...