San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Travel Blogs

Beach Stop
Jan 6, 2009

On my way down to Costa Rica, I made a half-day stop in San Juan del Sur, a well known surfing town. There were no waves at the beach the day I was there, but I went for a nice swim and watched the sun set over the Pacific. Not too bad.

Living my dream
Dec 11, 2008 (25 photos)

... in Leon, so we felt good about trekking for a cause. Now we've been living for a few weeks 4 kilometers outside of San Juan Del Sur on the Pacific Coast, tucked away in the trees with the howler monkeys and the wind blowing all around us.  We ...

San Juan Del Sur
Jun 18, 2006 (2 photos)

... from our hike up Volcan Concepcion. We sampled on of the Rough Guide's 28 'not-to-be-missed' recommendations - Flor de Cana, Nicaragua's finest rum. When I say we sampled it, we got through 1.5 litres between 4 people, so I think we did quite well... ;-) ...

San Carlos
Apr 17, 2009 (5 photos)

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San Juan del Surf
Jun 15, 2009 (3 photos)

So I have pretty much settled into this little town now and it is a really relaxing place to be. Spanish school is intense, after 4 hours every morning I am completely burned out but since I still have no idea what anyone is trying to say to me I guess I ...

Centro America
Jun 7, 2009

... hords of people constantly trying to sell you stuff but other then that the trip was ok. I made it to my destination (San Juan del Sur) at about 5pm and started looking for somewhere to stay. An English couple in San Jose reccommended a place called Arena ...

Surfing it up at San Juan
Mar 7, 2007

After arriving in San Juan Del Sur and finding a cheap, but half decent room to myself (less than a dorm bed in Granada), I was surprised to find that there was no surf beach here, oly a bay with a few boats moored. No fear - I quickly learnt of a truck ...

nice beach!
Feb 27, 2007

I got to San Juan del Sur, by bus, at around noon today. It was a short but painful trip, as my knees were slamming into the midget seats ahead of me. San Juan is a really beautiful beach in a horseshoe shape, white sand, turqouise but COLD water ...

San Juan
Feb 6, 2008 (8 photos)

Hey been neglecting my uploading duties recently. my camera went on the brink in peru and have been robbing photos since instead of taking my own. heres a few random snaps from a nicaraguan website taken at maderas beach where ive been surfing the& ...

san juan del sur
Mar 31, 2007

... though it took forever and once we got across i had asked the driver to let me off on the road that would take me to san juan del sur, because there isnt a bus that goes directly there.  so i get off there and they tell me that i will have to flag a ...

Nicaragua Part 2
Nov 3, 2006 (22 photos)

... never got up to full speed, which was fine by me. About 45 minutes later, I was wandering sunburned and thirsty through San Juan del Sur. I ended up choosing lodging in Casa Oro, which my Lonely Planet gave some pretty stellar remarks. Eh...it was okay. ...

Officially the most low maintenance wedding I´ve e
May 27, 2007 (4 photos)

We moved from San Juan del Sur town out to stay in a hostel called Matilda´s out on the surf beach with great intentions of catching our first barrel (for those of you who know my athletic ability, you can tell how successful that effort was!). It takes 45 ...

Jellyfish and lobsters
Mar 20, 2007

Next stop was San Juan del Sur.  The town is built on a horse-shoe cove with tourism and fishing as the main industries.  This leads to some pretty cheap sea food.  Like the the two lobster tails I had for under $10. The San Juan beach ...

New Country, New Sport.
Aug 2, 2006

... know about. Getting that sorted out, we arranged new lessons for today and spent the rest of the day relaxing. Sunsets in San Juan del Sur are amazing! We had dinner in one of the beach front thatch hut-style restaurants here and watched the sun do down ...

San Juan del Sur
Aug 14, 2009 (7 photos)

... $30 per night.No air-con but otherwise perfect! We looked forward to cooking our own breakfasts and lunches for a few days. San Juan del Sur is a nice little beach town on the Pacific coast, about 30 minutes north of Costa Rica. We've spent the past ...

Getting to San Juan del Sur
Feb 18, 2009 (28 photos)

... went by quickly and with night coming, we decided to head towards the Pacific and find a good place to camp.  We stopped in San Juan del Sur and met a German guy who recommended we go to Playa Madera, about 8 Km up a dirt road. We did that but when we ...

Surfing!
Oct 28, 2008

... my fears of natural water, swimming and getting my face wet. I want to stay here and work on my technique! But I fly from San Jose to Peru on Sunday and I wanted to see some of Costa Rica on the way down. Decisions, decisions... Speaking of Peru, my ...

Nicaragua Here We Go
Dec 3, 2008 (5 photos)

... in San Juan del Sur. The sun was shining brighter than we have seen for days.  The landscape here is beautiful.  San Juan del Sur is a small beach town where many tourists go for fun and sun.  Our main objective was to see Oliver Ridley ...

Surfing and salsa in San Juan Del Sur!
Sep 5, 2007 (11 photos)

Our final destination in Nicaragua was San Juan Del Sur, a small town on the Pacific Ocean near the Costa Rican border. The actual town is on a little bay so there is really not much surfing there, but the better surf beaches are mostly a bit north and ...

At the beach
Jun 11, 2007

... was fantastic, even if the amount time we spent walking sandy shores and lazing about really gives us nothing to write about. San Juan del Sur is Nicaragua's most well known beach town, and we spent most of our time on the beach. On Sunday we tried to ...

Mi cumpleaņos!!
May 9, 2007 (3 photos)

... just spent 6 months in South America including Christmas in Antarctic which just sounded mind-blowing. Chicken bussed it down to San Juan del Sur, surf town on the Pacific coast the morning of my bday. Poor Dave under mad pressure to sort out the ...

Getting Better in Surfing at Maderas Beach
Jan 26, 2009

... , takze dopoledne bylo rozjezdove. ;) Dnes stravime posledni noc v Nikarague a zitra jedem smer Kostarika. Pro zmenu na plaz Playa del Coco. ;) Dnes zadne fotky, ale muzete si predstavit, ze si to tu uzivame. Doufam, ze se mate take krasne prese trochu ...

Nicarague here we come!
Jul 23, 2007

Hoi hoi! Vandaag hebben we het meer toeristische Costa Rica achter ons gelaten. Na een vermoeiende busreis waarin we, geperst tussen locals als sardinen in een blik 3 uur hebben rechtgestaan, zijn we aangekomen in een gezellig strand stadje geliefd ...

The chicken in the egg
Mar 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... dark tonight. So, Rather than take 2 buses and potentially wait for hours, Jen and I splashed out and took a taxi to San Juan del Sur. The road from the border passed by the amazing lake Ometepe and the 2 Volcanos Madera and Concepcion. Madera is no ...

Riding that magic yoga mat in the sky!
Jan 26, 2009 (12 photos)

... . We're looking forward to hitting the road again to backpack on February 1st we leave El Camino Del Sol to visit a few more places in Nicaragua before heading north to El Salvador.  On March 2nd we fly from San Pedro Sula, Honduras back ...

Back to the west coast- San Juan Del Sur
Jan 6, 2009 (30 photos)

We are on the SW coast of Nicaragua. It is hot and humid. We stayed here for 5 days and enjoyed each and every one of them. Nice beach resort with some upscale restaurants up the hill from the beach. The better places have better food. It was fun to have ...

Big Waves.
Aug 4, 2006 (19 photos)

... Wildlife Reguge), a very significant nesting spot for Olive Ridley Turtles. Anyway, we had to pay this morning and the lady at Casa del Oro (the hotel that offers the trips) didn´t know how to use the incredibly old credit card machine. Yes, it was one ...

San Juan del Sur
Feb 10, 2007 (9 photos)

... ´t miss a branch, cos the poor bugger will hang himself!! Got ourselves the good ole chickin bus from Rivas to San Juan del Sur (US$0.50c) Once again, we found ourseleves wandering the streets with our backpacks looking for decent accommodation. We ...

Gringo Land
Jun 12, 2008

... a good rest in an air conditioned "ambience". Reading our travel guides on the ferry we decided on the closest "paradise"...San Juan del Sur which is probably foreign tourist spot number 1 and therefore guaranteed some quality of hotels. So we took the ...

Nicaragua here we come!
Oct 25, 2007 (21 photos)

Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday!!  Spending my birthday at the beach was an inspired decision and spending it here was amazing luck.  I had the best time, with 2 celebrations!!  The evening before my birthday Lianne came running up the ...