San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Travel Blogs

Hang loose in surfers town.
Nov 27, 2004 (13 photos)

... caters for tourists from around the world. Hence it's probably the closest you get to a beach resort town in Nicaragua. 10km north of San Juan del Sur, only reached by boat or a bumpy ride along a muddy track, I once again find myself close to paradise ...

Surf and Sea Turtles
Dec 2, 2007 (8 photos)

... a motorcycle and tour Ometepe, but instead it just rained all day.  So we played a little Scrabble, talked with friends about San Juan del Sur and got so excited that we peeled out the next day.  And so glad we did, San Juan kicks awesome!! This ...

Happy new year from the beach!
Jan 3, 2007 (8 photos)

... and firecracker stalls outside the bus station.  I was reminded of what would be in store of us tonight.   Arrived in San Juan at about 11am and started to do the hostel rounds.  An hour later in the midday heat we had found about 2 rooms ...

lakes, beaches and a rather muddy volcano
Dec 1, 2004 (8 photos)

... for watching Oakland Raiders beat Denver Bronco's in the snow on the tv. The following day we caught the bus (10cordobas/30pence) to San Juan del Sur which was only an hour away. This is a lazy beach town and we found a good place to stay right on the ...

Beach Town
Jul 2, 2007 (3 photos)

San Jan del Sur,  I went to this little beach town to check out the surf from the Nicaragua side.  Turns out, the town beach is pretty mediocre with no waves and that most people that come to San Juan actually stay ten to fifteen miles out of ...

San Juan del Sur - the last days in Nicaragua
Oct 3, 2004 (4 photos)

... Martin from Switzerland. It was a lot of fun hanging out with a big group of people. The next day we left for San Juan del Sur, a popular surfer spot. The weather has been so, so and the just-hanging-out-and-doing- nothing atmosphere is killing me. ...

There's something in the water here...
Oct 13, 2006 (3 photos)

... after a hellish off road trip north, sunning, swimming, and surfing (i actually caught some waves!) on a beautiful deserted beach.. Nicaragua certainly isn't going to last long in its current state - its too beautiful to avoid the marauding (c) Whittaker, ...

A bit of sea air
Oct 26, 2008

Decided to stop for a night in this small surfy beach town en route to the Costa Rican border. Travelled with a few people from the Bearded Monkey (last night's hostel). The journey from Granada was hectic: we had to wait an hour and a half for the first ...

San Juan del Sur
Jul 4, 2008

San Juan del Sur is a small surfing community on the Pacific Coast, near the Costa Rican border.  It is the type of place where guys donīt wear shirts but they donīt need to because they are tan and ripped and waxing their surfboards on the sidewalks!& ...

San Juan Del SUr!!! my favorite place in Nica!!!
Aug 11, 2009 (14 photos)

... prices really really low with all the taxi drivers and hostels and such.  So what a blessing, we took a taxi to SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua and experienced such beauty. We got a hostel for 5$ a night right across the street from the beach.  I was ...

San Juan del Sur
Nov 1, 2007

From Ometepe the next stop was San Juan Del Sur, a resort town close to the Panamanian border. Although itīs a tourist town the town itself doesnīt have much of an infrastructure. The road there is pretty bad and the roads in town are pretty bad. It seems ...

San Juan del Sur
Nov 22, 2005

... some of the best surf in Central America. So the hard core come down here to enjoy the non-crowded beaches and waves. San Juan del Sur was a mixed bag for me. I can see its attraction in that its natural harbor provides a nice setting for the Pacific ...

Exhausted and its friday
Nov 28, 2008

... pool as some drunk americans in the room above me broke there shower and then passed out with water pissing everywhere.... So san juan del sur is spectacular the water is a bit colder then La labertad in El salvador but the sand is nice and soft and ...

Time to unwind
Jul 13, 2007 (4 photos)

... north. Rivas seemed like a chaotic city and I was grateful for the fact that we were only passing through. We arrived in San Juan before dark which I always find important so we can get an idea of the town. Seemed to be pretty nice really, lots of ...

to San Juan del Sur
Jan 28, 2009 (10 photos)

... long ago San Juan del Sur was a small, quiet fishermen village. The perfectly shaped bay and beautiful neighboring beaches have made San Juan del Sur one of the most popular beach towns in Nicaragua. But I did not take a swim because there was plenty of ...

More Beach!!
Aug 26, 2007 (24 photos)

Bit wet today, nice beach though and had refreshing swim, gona chill here before the hike up monteverde in costa rica and the long trip the panama city before the big game! P.S. just uploaded photos from the blue hole, Tikal and Cuba, finally ...

Summary of journey through Central America
Nov 28, 2007 (24 photos)

... are definitely going to change sooner rather than later.      Conclusions I am right now in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Here I finally got the time and motivation, as well as the resources to write this monster blog update of what ...

Guat, Honduras, Nic - Best of
Jun 5, 2005 (3 photos)

... else the Gringaaaa will get them etc, and that didnt bode well for Kirsteen (who was a blonde white woman tourist) Nicaragua: 4. Loudest Thunder in Central America! 3. Everywhere you look people are lugging around basins full of dinner. This may ...

Plastered in Paradise
Oct 10, 2009 (2 photos)

... a bit under the weather from the previous nights activities but we all managed to drag ourselves down to their holiday home in San Juan Del Sur which is down south on the Pacific coast. They bought an off the plan bungalow several years ago in what you ...

another beach / town
Jul 23, 2007 (9 photos)

... guess we have to do some sewing soon. We changed bus in Riva, yes they told us on sunday there is no bus to San Juan del Sur but sure it was. We passed by beautyfull coutryside meadows. (just like Allgaeu). All covered with yellow small flowers and we ...

San Juan Del Sur
Mar 20, 2009

SJ del Sur

Best week of the trip
Nov 27, 2008 (19 photos)

So far this week has been spectacular iīve met some good people and been traveling with them since leon. I spent pretty much all my time in granada just partying its the most partying iīve done since arriving in central america over a month ago. ...

love meeting amazing people
Apr 6, 2007 (7 photos)

... has been travelling around for the past 2 and a half months all over in basically every country.  and she has totally made nicaragua way way better. i was so bored before she got here and had never really gone to the beaches or anything, we we have ...

Recuperation at Marsella Beach
Feb 24, 2009 (63 photos)

...  On the third night, we went out to dinner in San Juan del Sur - which is such a cool, laid back town.   ...

The Beach
Mar 17, 2008

... were the only white people there, it was really hot and kind of wierd. We went back and got the bus to Rivas, then to San Juan del Sur and then a taxi ride to Playa Matilde as the note said. It took a few hours and the chicken buses in Nicaragua aren't as ...

Puerto Rico
Jan 28, 2008 (12 photos)

... of the waves on the side of the M/V Explorer as she led us into San Juan that took my breath away more. My impression of San Juan - the one pre-Semester at Sea - strangely was one of boredom and the LACK OF impression at all. Oh, but San Juan has ...

Turtle Beach.
Aug 6, 2006 (16 photos)

Another day at the beach...but first: The Adventures of Fillis, the Olive Ridley Turtle. Last night was really amazing. The view of nicaraguan jungle, lit by the setting sun from the back of a bumpy truck, fireflies fleeting through the trees on the ...

SJDS, Nicaragua
May 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... Nicaragua. It was great fun catching the local bus (me and Zack were like a tourist attraction). Eventually, 13 hours later I arrived in San Juan Del Sur, where even though my Spanish is on the up, I've got a long way to go so will be doing lessons from ...

The Perils of Small Game Hunting
Feb 18, 2009 (16 photos)

... I got up to the beach and a Nicaraguan guy and his 4 year old son (who did the driving) brought me into the little town of San Juan del Sur - called San Juan del Surf by the locals gringos.   The first doctor did not have much of a bedside manner and I ...

New Beginnings
Jan 6, 2009 (30 photos)

... all the fixings.  No snow (although Sven and I did our best to pray for it to come to southern Nicaragua) but there was fabulous cheesecake so I wasn't too sad.  New Year's Eve was truly memorable, hanging out with ...