Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Costa Rica
crazy....but awesome girls
so, it has been a couple of days since teri tal and cara left me, but i have become better friends with the girls i met on the first day....jenna, meagan and ashlee. so far, we have gone out everynight. its fun to dance with my ladies, and ...
Costa Rica - Pura Vida
Considering our original plans for Central America were to hit Belize, Guatemala & Costa Rica, finding ourselves in both Honduras & Nicaragua was not factored in to any schedule we have. I guess that´s why very quickly we figured out that a schedule is a ...
Still in San Jose...
Well still in San Jose....it kinda sucks. Seema arrived and everthing on Monday night but her bag didn't! Seriously annoying! So she wasn't best pleased after 25 hours of travelling, not really what you want! It's Wednesdqay morning now and the ...
NICOYA PENINSULA
We were back in the car again for what we thought was a six hour journey to the Pacific coastline. However this turned out to be only three hours with a nice coffee stop en route at a destination full of macaws and monkeys. Our next ...
Day 20: Happy birthday to you...
... gate, we realized that our tickets said business class - which basically meant first class - and we enjoyed a surprisingly comfortable flight to Costa Rica. A man from the institute where we are going to study picked us up and drove us to our new home. ...
Settling in...
By now I have fallen into a daily routine that goes something like this. Out of bed. Coffee. Wake up. Surf. Eat. Conduct business (i.e. internet, surf more?, bank). Surf. Eat. Cervezas. Sleep. Surfing takes up the majority of the day at about ...
Volando entre los arboles
Zip lining The weather gods were smiling on us again today. It was sunny and warm and beautiful until the very moment Gustav dropped us off at the Home Base; then it started to sprinkle. As I type this, a few minutes later, it's pouring like the ...
End of the bus ride / flight to panama
so woke up at 8.30am, and headed straight to the local bus stop. caught a chicken bus to the pavas airport and caught a flight to bocas del toro, with no real plans. the best thing now is that i have no commitments like flights or anything, and i will ...
Paradise Revisited!!
... the pictures)...it was just me and the truckers, hanging out...mano y mano...you know, good guy-stuff. Anyhow, Costa Rica is obviously a very prosperous country in these parts...no chicken buses, lots of private cars, banks, mini-malls, ...
Up and running
Well, the program finally got going on Tuesday -- and got off to a very slow start because no one knew the new school schedule until Monday, and so no announcement could be made in church and everyone assumed that we weren't starting yet. We were, ...