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- San Jose
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- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
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Turrialba Slideshow
Top Hotels in Turrialba
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Albergue Volcan Turrialba
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Cerro Alto Lodge Turrialba
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Geliwa Turrialba Hotel
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Hotel Wagelia Turrialba
11 reviews
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Rancho Naturalista Turrialba
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Turrialtico Mountain Lodge Hotel Turrialba
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Hotel Villa Florencia Turrialba
22 reviews
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Finca Monteclaro Turrialba
11 reviews
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Casa Turire Turrialba
54 reviews
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Hacienda Tayutic Turrialba
22 reviews
Turrialba
Travel Blogs from Turrialba, Costa Rica
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Ants and the Mimosa
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Jorge versus Turrialba
... 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 ...
Finding La Marta
La Marta Wildlife Refuge (near Pejibaye, Cartago Province) Story to follow. Maybe even in a newspaper. (Sorry, but I´m saving my best pictures for personal viewing in case I make this into an article!) Bird sightings Scarlet trumpet tanager ...
JJ on a mountain bike. Worst Korea move ever!
... 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. ...
My Own Private Crying Game
... ! 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 ...
Turriabla
... 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, ...
The female Tarzan
... 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
... get some 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 ...
White water rafting!
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 ...
All Forward!
... not 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 ...
Class IV? Who Needs A Raft?
... making 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 ...
Turrialba - rain and rafting
... 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 ...
Turrialba and the plantation
... ; nothing very exciting though. At 6 o'clock, Ron our guide, called a emergency meeting to tell us that the nearby volcano Turrialba, had been put on a high state of alert and we could be asked at any moment to evacuate the hotel. During that afternoon, ...
leaving costa rica for panama
... 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. ...
Tortuguero to Parismina to Turrialba
... . Saw many birds along the way, including several large hawks and vultures. After a couple of hours, we descended into Turrialba, an agricultural town in a valley. Turrialba is supposedly the home of the best white water rafting in Central America, a ...
Reptiles and rivers
... agricultural workers about preventing snake bites. His research has shown that the numbers of venomous snakes are increasing in Costa Rica and all over the tropics in areas where natural habitat has been converted to agricultural land. After giving us a ...
White water rafting rocks!
Before our 8am pick up for the rafting, we luckily found a little soda (small cafe) that was open where our fellow rafting crew were already eating. Some friendly ticos served us up some hearty scrambled eggs, rice & beans with fried plantain, tomato ...
Turrialba
... 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 ...
Trek Across Costa Rica
... most of what Costa Rica has to offer including amazing jungles, unbelievably welcoming people, picture perfect rivers, and amazing beaches. Costa Rica is a very mountainous country so we spent the middle 7 or 8 days at above 2000m which meant it was ...
Costa Rica Day 5
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 ...
Week 2 - Setteled into the homestay
... rapids later we loaded the raft back onto the van, grabbed a bite to eat and were back on the bus to Orosi. Another week in Costa Rica that will never be forgotten. Gotta add a piece on here. As I’m typing this a couple sets of drums and a couple ...
zurück am CATIE
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 ...
Español!!
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 ...
The life in Turrialba
Turrialba 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 ...
Volcano Turrialba
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 ...
Whitewater rafting Class IV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... auf Klasse IV. Wir saehen schliesslich sportlich aus. Oweia... Absolut beste Outdoor Aktivitaet, die ich soweit gemacht habe. Go Costa Rica! Pura Vida, wie die Einheimischen so gerne sagen. Auch ein Lebensmotto. Natuerlich habe ich es auch auf die Reihe ...
Splish-Splash
... 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 ...
Volcan Irazu
With all the cloud cover it was hard to see anything, but we did get a peek at the volcano crater, as well as a "haunted house" on the way back to Cartago, which was an old abandoned hospital for TB patients. It was huge! And full of ...
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