Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
Costa Rica Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Costa Rica
Last Day
... who shall remain nameless. After chastising myself for convincing myself that I had to try guaro on my last night in Costa Rica, I swilled down an enormous cup of coffee, skipped breakfast and headed to class feeling more than a bit ...
Bosque Nuboso Monteverde.
The day before yesterday we got up early to catch the jeep-boat-jeep to Santa Elena. In the first jeep (actually a minibus) we met a really cool couple: Markelle from Greece and Michael from the USA. They ended up staying in the same hotel as us and even ...
inyector
oh my goodness. yesterday i was pretty sick so i went to the hospital. I got a shot in my butt, IVs in my arms, and saw someone die. Crazy! a few people left the house this past weekend and a few new people came! I like the switch. everyone gets ...
Kids...bugs...food...a few tidbits on the lot.
The last few weeks have been SO busy! I've been learning a lot: bus routes, currency exchange, what should cost what, where to shop, where NOT to shop, what places have the cheapest internet, the art of ignoring cat-calls, and so much more. The kids ...
La Fortuna
Like always, lots has happened, but I´ll try and catch up some... After Monteverde, we took a taxi-boat-taxi to visit La Fortuna, a small tourist town that´s very popular for being right next to the Arenal Volcano. We saw the volcano on the boatride ...
Wednesday!
... here, they even have mayo flavoured chips! cool..?) We were also served Imperial Beer, which is the domestic beer of Costa Rica. Surprisingly, I ( definitely am not a big fan of beer) found it quite bearable. Some other people ordered pina coladas, ...
Team Rica do Costa Rica
... they look after orphaned sloths and monkeys, oh and then there were the incredible sunsets over white sand beaches.... All in all Costa Rica was be far the best country we have been to in terms of wildlife and vegetation - stunning place, highly ...
Adios to Costa Rica
Ola amigos y amigas Thought I´d send you a final few pics from Costa Rica. Lovely place with amazing scenery. Bit tough going on those rough roads. The group thing was a bit wearing, but thank goodness for my roommate Catriona...she was great. We ...
Look kids, its Big Ben
... before lockdown. This is as close to life behind bars as I ever want to get. It´s an early night for us, we depart on a 5:30 AM bus to head north for the Nicaraguan border. Pura Vida Costa Rica! Who loves volcanoes, Jay and ...
Playa Hermosa Again
We are back at the Iguana Inn at Playa Hermosa, after our trip to the Secret Beach where we camped with Patrick. We went to a hotel called Hotel Man Gaby. It was recommended by some people we met on the beach. There was a girl at the ...
Jungle and Surf Paradise
Dreamy surf and jungle paradise - we booked for 3 nights and stayed 7... World class beach breaks, warm water, tropical jungles hide all development, Black Ctenosaur (Leguan Lizards) everywhere, incredible sounds surround at night (howler ...
With the Jeter Family
... much less) than we would have without the benefit of daniela's family members being here. most backpackers kind of cruise through costa rica, as it's more expensive than lots of other places in centroamerica. but we kept a full schedule complete with ...
Canopy Tour in Santa Elena and Monteverde
Came down to Santa Elena to check out the Cloud forest and do a Zip line tour of the forest. The ride was long and rough and we had to wait for the bus from about 9:30AM to 4pm when the bus finally arrived and then the road was blocked on the way ...
Puerto Viejo
... out that the receptionist was originally from the US too. When she was a sophomore in high school her parents decided to move to Costa Rica, and she had been here ever since. After the massage me and this other girl took naps and got ready later to ...
Vortex.
På stans lokala lilla vattenhåll var det någon som sa "Montezuma is like a vortex, if you go near it you get sucked in and become stuck". Ligger nog lite sanning i det, det är många människor som bosatt sig här utan att veta varför. Många flyr ...
Pissed at Poas...
... to get you. I wish I knew that when I signed up to go. I was pissed because I was too nervous to lie and say that I was Costa Rican and I had to pay 10 dollars to get a ticket into this place…a ticket no one took. I was pissed because there was no ...
Late Day and Night in San Jose
Krasny pozdrav vam zasilam tentokrat z hlavniho mesta Kostariky - San Jose, kam jsme dorazili dnes odpoledne z plaze. Telo je krasne unavene ze surfovani. Chudak Magnus je trochu zpaleny od slunce (moc pigmentu chudak Nor nema) ;) Dneska ...
Monteverde
If you go to Monteverde its to visit the rainforest. theres a network of trails that you can walk along that stretch several kilometres. The problem is that due to the huge numbers of people I didn't expect to see too much wildlife. Did see lots of ...
Crossing Costa Rica
A little bus ride of five hours to San José in the middle of Costa Rica, what we didn't realize before that we moved from sealevel to 1500m, it's fresh up there... Different to what everyone said, that San José is not a nice city at all and just to ...
Feliz Navidad y Feliz ano nuevo
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Central America!!! I know this comes late, and I apologies for not being more diligent in the update of this website; New Year has come with its new resolutions, so I promise you a close follow up of the ...
Day 4: an old woman makes me cry.
... UK. This evening, we went to see some fireworks to celebrate a church being old. Safe to say health and safety hasn't reached Costa Rica yet. Terrifying, and i'm fairly sure louder than at home. In other news, I got an email today saying I've got 2 ...
We left the paradise of Tamarindo for Nicoya?
... #3 on the top 5 worst rooms ever. {For the record: 1) Venice, Italy 2) Merida, Mexico (Yucatan) 3)Nicoya, Costa Rica 4) Genoa, Italy 5)tie between Palermo, Italy (Sicily) and Cancun, Mexico (Yucatan)}. The bathroom (at ...
Hi from Monteverde in the Costa Rican mountains!
... trekked through the jungle today, saw Arenal Volcano...it's active so it was from a distance, saw the Tetzel..a rare bird in Costa Rica, howler monkeys, white faced monkeys, ridden horses for 3 hours along Arenal lake, below the volcano, saw a coati...see ...
Moving into Casa Floribeth
... in a good part of San Jose, called Zapote. There we met Floribeth (the assistant to the president of the supreme court of costa rica), the mom, who loves to give everyone kisses (on their cheeks/heads). Which to be quiet honest, freaks me out ...
La Tortuga Feliz y mucho mas
Well, the turtles were ridiculously amazing!! The unnamed island itself was awesome, although the living conditions were not so easy. No electricity to speak of other than a solar panel for a few selected lights for a few hours at night and the meals ...
Volcanoes
Arrived late to the mountains north of San Jose, after driving through the capital, buying our ticket home and scoffed a drive thru burger king. Not proud to have swooped so low and eaten such garbage but it tasted moderately ok! Arrived back at the ...
Monkeys!
I arrived in Montezuma two days ago. After lazying about the hostel the first afternoon, I saw the Montezuma waterfalls, sat on the beach, and went to the Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve nearby. The Mochila Inn hostel is surrounded by trees ...