Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
San Jose Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Jose, Costa Rica
June18-21: Country Costa Culture
This is a top pick! June 18: After a month of procrastinating, I decide school might not happen; therefore, decide to immerse myself completely in the culture. A few days with a non-english speaking family in the country with noone else around will really wet your thirst ...
Costa Rica
This is a top pick! ... winters, the place will be amazing when it is finished and so near the beach too. Property development is huge business in Costa Rica with lots of people investing. Costa Rica is also widely known for its business and property scams on a huge scale. ...
Costa Rica
This is a top pick! ... ?". With a huge grin on my face like a little child I say "why not?". Difficult to top that one! What´s next? San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica. Quite nice as cities go but it is just a stop over point for us. We have the afternoon to do ...
Dia Primo - San Jose, Costa Rica
This is a top pick! After months of planning and waiting, Bob and I finally arrived in Costa Rica late last night after a smooth and seemingly speedy flight(s) from Chicago - Miami - San Jose. The final two days of preparation were hell for me as I was also moving out of my ...
Is that a bar in your pocket or... (w/ p.u.)
This is a top pick! ... scrapped from the road". So it was which much Bliss that we laid our head to rest in a hotel in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose with a double bed complete with fresh sheets and fluffy pillows and a bathroom with mini-soaps. I almost missed scraping ...
Pura Vida, We've Made It.
This is a top pick! Read More at Klenske, Ink. We made it to San Jose today around 1:30. The airport and city are very modern and big. The weather is perfect, mid 70's. And getting from the airport to the hotel was the easiest transfer I've ever done. Once we cleared ...
The New Year
This is a top pick! ... , it was past 4pm before we left, so needless to say we missed our connection. But the tour company booked us a hotel in san jose, took care of the costs for the hotel that we had booked in monteverde, and arranged for transportation for us to monteverde ...
Bumpy Roads and Hobbit Holes
This is a top pick! Visit Klenske, Ink. Today was a 'dia tipico' here in costa rica. hot, hot, and even more hot. we actually tried to sleep in today, but we just woke up around 6:30. Damn it. we had a nice breakfast and coffee delivered to our room and we ate breakfast ...
Into the City
This is a top pick! ... mile in chicago. Lots of people and lots of shops. Kara found a brazil football (aka soccer) jersey and I got, of course, my costa rica pins. We also got some t-shirts, ice cream, and an ox cart replica, which is a standard costa rican craft. After ...
Chaotic Border Crossing--Peñas Blancas
This is a top pick! ... road well and speed was at his mercy. After about an hour or so, we arrived at Penas Blancas, the border town with Costa Rica. The crossing was chaotic, as we didn't know where to find the Nicarguan immigration, after some hard searching and asking ...
El Señor de los Anillos--La Comunidad del Anillo
This is a top pick! ... from diverse backgrounds travel for a common goal. This great movie truly left an impression in my heart. A lot of people would remember where they first saw the Lord Of The Rings; for me, I can honestly say "in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Christmas ...
Christmas, French Wine, and Winnie the Pooh
This is a top pick! Me and Juliette spend our first Christmas together, and it was my first Christmas outside Canada. Everything was closed in San Jose except for the Chinese Resturant next door to our hotel, so we had our lunch there. We had nothing to do the whole day, so ...
The airport concourse...from a boeing 737!!!
This is a top pick! ... werent enough seats for the passengers boarding. Once all was sorted we thought we were gonna be underway but no........... it was raining and for some reason we couldnt take off. though eventually we did.....and that was costa rica. ...
Do you know the way to San Jose?!
After a very loooooooooong flight from the UK we arrived in the bustling city of San Jose Costa Rica!! Feeling knackered after the flight we made our way quickly to the hostel we'd reserved and pretty much straight to bed. The true adventures start ...
Footballs, Rockers and the American Way
... evidence below. Class was also interesting, because I learned some random bits of information about significant cultural differences between Costa Rica and the U.S. that I am fairly certain I would not have otherwise known. For example, I learned ...
Wheel into the hotsprings
we distributed in and around san jose for the first 4 days--at a school near aunt rhoda's house, at the DHL warehouse, and at a children's hospital. for the last day we took a 5 hour trip towards the south and west to the city of perez zeledon ...
Just a quick stop in Costa Rica...
Just a quick stop over in San Jose, Costa Rica. I spent a little over a month here in Costa Rica a few years ago and I am a bit anxious to get up to Nicaragua... heading north ...
Getting Settled!
I arrived in Costa Rica well. The flight was quick but uncomfortable because I was sleeping and my head kept bobbing up and down. Silvia picked me up at the airport and brought me back to her place where I am staying for the next few months. ...
Dulce de Leche
... told me that she was born and raised in Italy. She went to London to study english for a few years when she decided to come to Costa Rica for vacation. That's when she met and fell in love with her husband, who was a local. She moved here to be with him, ...
On the Road: The Pan-American Highway
... of the fruit or coffee plantations) and an ambulance stuck in traffic. I really hope that I never end up in an ambulance in Costa Rica--I really have to believe the odds are not in your favor. At any rate, with only one wrong turn as I headed ...
colombia dejavu
... and the cold and making my way to the pacific cost. I never made it to the pacific coast so im spending a night in san jose costa rica. Bus journey So on the bus today i was traveling with a swedish guy and his gf from new zealand they have over ...
the pivotal step
so here i am in san jose...finally.A gruelling 12 hour flight with a baby close by crying pretty much the whole way here. I have had a sleep and shower so i feel ready for a day in the big BIG city of san jose. I dont really have much to comment on just ...
Une grosse ville mais une ambiance de pueblo..
Nico et Denis sont donc bien arrives et notre groupe se constitue maintenant de 5 personnes! Le Costa Rica est fondamentalement different de tous les pays que nous avons visites jusqu'a present. Beaucoup plus riche et developpe, la capitale ressemble ...
Annie is here!
Wahoo! Annie made it here safe and sound and for some reason she thinks it's hot here. We've already had 1.5 margaritas each (ok, maybe I had 1.75 and she had the other 1.25) and we've chatted up our cute gay guy hosts at a gay hotel here. We're about ...
a bit dirty
San Jose is the capital of Costa Rica and lies in the Central Valley. In the centre there is not that much to do, there are several churches and a pedestrian mall with lots of shops and western food chains. The air is also a bit dirty. When I ...
It's been a while.
... town. It's very beautiful. The next morning we took the Tica bus which is a bus that takes you from Nicaragua to San Jose Costa Rica. It's much nicer and easier than traveling on your own between the two countries, but it did take 9 hours. Saturday we ...
Supply Run
... I also decided that there is more out there in other nearby countries to be making up as I go along, rather than just staying in Costa Rica. I found an english language bookstore and got a phrase book and a Central America guidebook. Horay for ...