Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
San Jose Slideshow
San Jose
Travel Blogs from San Jose, Costa Rica
In need of sleep
After an early rise out of Toronto followed by 10 hrs of travel time I arrived into San Jose, Costa Rica about 3pm. Although my 3rd time here I've never visited during the month of November and so I was surprised with the cloudy skies and sense of ...
Cruising through Costa Rica
... in Cali just before Xmas, what good timing. But I get ahead of myself - let's talk Pura Vida. Pura Vida is the Costa Rica slogan. It's written on all the signs, shirts, airport banners, and usually used as a greeting in some form or another. I ...
Costa Rica, my first days
... 's in another study abroad program. We had a really good time talking, especially because both Nate and Tiffany had been to Costa Rica before, and well, we pretty much just pumped them for information! I was a little disoriented when I arrived ...
San Jose
Hola a todos! Ayer me fui a los rapidos que estan a 2 horas de aqui, fue una experiencia increible regularmente las balsas son para unas 6 a 8 personas pero los guias quisieron experimentar con una balsa pequena en la cual ibamos los 3 conocidos del ...
Arenal
Hi, We arrived in Costa rica and drove to the Arenal rainforest which has a volcano. Costa Rica is amazing!!! It is so lush, green and the people here are so nice. We are staying at the lost Iguana a great little hotel. Yesterday we hiked to the ...
Get me out of here....
Not much to say about this leg of the trip except to say that the journey from baggage claim to car rental facility to front of car rental line to being handed keys to rental car was excruciatingly long. We were starving by the time all was said ...
Ankunt Costa Rica
... wir in LA abgeflogen. Nach ewigem Securityprozedere mit Nacktscanner etc. sassen wir dann endlich im Flieger mit Ziel San José, Costa Rica. Eine Zwischenlandung in Guatemala City verlängerte die Reisezeit etwas, wenigstens konnten wir uns so aber die ...
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 ...
Don't bother going to San Jose!
Travelled for about 7 hours to get to San Jose, Costa Rica. Crossing the Panama-Costa Rica border involved a lot of queuing and passport stamping and walking across a long rickety bridge over a river that divided the two countries. The main bus ...
Mi tercer día (My Third Day)
Today was my first day of class in the ICADS program. I had to wake up at around 6 in the morning to get ready and make sure I was prepared to meet another student with his mom. Mike and his madre came here at around 7:00 and we walked together about 25 ...