Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
Alajuela Slideshow
Alajuela
Travel Blogs from Alajuela, Costa Rica
Rafting and Quad biking in La Fortuna
We continued our Costa Rica adrenaline rush by heading on to the town of La Fortuna. We had three days here and we signed up for as many activities as we could. We kicked off with canyoning. We headed high up into the jungle hills of La Fortuna, ...
Costa Rica
... screens showing every single game of Sunday American Football, which was a good compensation and an ideal last meal in the US. We arrived in Costa Rica in the evening and stayed in a small town near the airport. Going out for a walk we had a great ...
A Tale of 3 Buses
... foreigners in Liberia, probably because there´s not much to do or see there. Here in La Fortuna there are tons. One of the Costa Rican beers, Imperial, is quite tasty and light. Tomorrow we hope to do a volcano walk at night and some other tour ...
Arenal Volcano
We have just come back from spending a few days in Fortuna to see an active Volcano called Arenal, in central Costa Rica. It was the first time we have been to a active volcano and was not expecting it to be so noisy. We splashed out for a few nights at ...
Arenal Volcano
Have had torrential rain all night and as a result for the first time we have got bogged down with the vehicle. We had to go forward and turn 90 degrees before backing to get out, we managed the turn OK but once we started backing up we sunk down to the ...
Arenal - Lago , Lava & Mucho Vino Tinto
... all day despite not actually being that far distance-wise ... the cynical side of me is thinking there is a deliberate strategy in Costa Rica to make all backpackers lives as difficult as possible so you give up on public transport and start signing up ...
Tagesausflug
... gut zwei Stunden pro Weg und faehrt relativ frueh wieder zurueck. Unsere Erfahrung zeigt aber, dass die Trails in den Nationalparks in Costa Rica im Regelfall nicht sehr lang sind. Auch in diesem Fall war der begehbare Teil des Parks in 2 Stunden mehr ...
Almost Diverted to Panama
Being surrounded by mountains and arriving on a foggy night, our flight was almost diverted to Panama. The lady pilot of American Airlines made a third attempt to land after some minutes of holding up in the air, we finally landed. Had dinner in the ...
La Fortuna - die Glückliche...
... erst um 21.30 Uhr - zur absoluten Wohltat. Das im Preis inkludierte Abendbuffet übertrifft auch alle Erwartungen: riesige Auswahl an jeglichen Speisen & Getränken in sehr schönem Ambiente. Fazit: (wieder) zwei rundum gelungene Tage in Costa ...
Ola Arenal!!!
Desde o Terminal San Carlos, em San Jose, até La Fortuna, 4horas de autocarro por entre vales e montanhas cheios de casinhas que faziam lembrar a Suíça. Bonito e bastante mais fresco! La Fortuna à chegada, uff vista frontal para vulcão Arenal ...
Horseback Riding
No volcano to see, what else can we do? A lot of choices but pressed for time. Hence, we ended up doing a two-hour horseback riding to the observatory hoping to get a view also of the volcano... Still, no luck. When we reached the observatory, we were ...
Zentrales Hochland
... konnten. Der Besitzer hatte speziell ein Zimmer seiner Hotelanlage der Bootskoje seines Bootes, mit dem er vor vielen Jahren nach Costa Rica auswanderte, aus Wehmut nachempfunden. Das "Zimmer" war winzig, dafür die Übernachtung günstig, die Matratze ...
On to Arenal and Monteverde
Well we have had some sweet adventures with the whole family. On Saturday we took the "Monkey Road" back to the almost abandoned beach Sonny had found (Zapotal) and were looking for the monkeys that had been there both times he went down that road. No ...
Amerika malo drugace
... :) prsliso najucakat na letalisce in mava zajtrk in bazen in use za smesno malo denarja (beri cca. 2000 SIT na osebo). Alajuela je zelo urejena, njen edini problem do sedaj je, da ne moreva prenest fotk, ker racunalnik nima USB priklopa :) Vceri, k ...
Volcan Arenal
So after escaping San Jose our first stop was La fortuna, the town in the shadow of Volcan Arenal, which is in the top ten most active volcanoes in the world/central america apparently. Only not whilst we were there. The town was full of photos of ...
Klar und klar = blau, alles klar?
... , dessen Besichtigung wir uns zum Ziel gesetzt hatten. Der Rio Celeste fliesst durch den Tenorio Vulkan-Nationalpark im Norden Costa Ricas. Perlen des Parks sollten eigentlich, wie dem offiziellen Namen nach nicht anders zu erwarten, die vier Vulkangipfel ...
JJ IS STILL ALIVE (DAMMIT!)
... . Unless, of course, shaking your stick was what you had negotiated in the price. Greetings, True Believers, from sunny La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Did I say sunny? ...... I think not. I have been trying to convince JJ that we are a mere 4 miles away from ...
Another border crossing
... new USB stick and spent some time saving and reprocessing the photos I had lost. Have found, at least on first impression, that Costa Rica seems less friendly then the other places I´ve visited. People on the street tend to seem like they are frowning ...
Alajuela & San Jose
San Jose ist schnell erzählt. 10 min schlendern durch die Fußgängerzone, und man hat die Hauptstadt von Costa Rica gesehen. Was bleibt: nicht zwingend sehenswert, viel Dreck, aber verhältnismäßig sicher, u.a. auch deshalb, weil aller 50m Polizisten ...
Alajuela
... whatsoever. I was rescued by a taxi driver who rang round and confirmed there were no beds in SJ and found me a place in Alajuela for $35 - absolute extortion, as was the cab fare here but I couldn't get a bus because I didn't know which hotel. ...
La Paz Waterfalls Gardens
Did not get to the volcano, instead opted to go the La Paz Waterfalls. It was beautiful and had a great time. The garden was amazing with wildl life. Now, I personally thought it should be called a natural zoo but its a gardent. Had lunch at the ...
Catarata de Los Chorros e Sarchí
... grande da Costa Rica), ainda falámos de formação em futebol em Portugal, Academia do Sporting e clubes europeus versa clubes da Costa Rica... Tive de mudar de tema o homem sabia muito :)! Chegados a Cacao sentados na paragem do autocarro (faltavam ...
A Day at the Mall
It was the final match of the World Cup and Steve couldn't miss it, considering he wasn’t able to watch any of the other games. So we hit up the local mall to watch it. Yes, the food court had flat screens and everybody and their grandma was ...
Tico Times
... dagblad, de Tico Times, behoren Tico`s zelfs tot de gelukkigste mensen ter wereld. Maar bovenal is de natuur in Costa Rica natuurlijk ronduit prachtig. Zeker in het huidige regenseizoen is alles groener dan groen en nergens anders zie je zoveel aapjes, ...
A bit of Heaven
Well we have landed in a bit of heaven here. The place we are staying can be viewed at http://www.montanafuegohotel.com/ Not only do we have a view of Arenal (if it would only come out of the clouds) but it is a fantastic garden and tons of ...
Ein Abschied mit Wehmut
In 120 Tagen, 18 Wochen, 4 Monaten quer durch Zentralamerika: Klar faellt es uns nicht leicht, diese Freiheit fuer den Alltag aufzugeben. Joel machen 20 Stunden Flugreisen absolut nichts aus. Wie beim Hinflug ist er fit und macht die Flughaefen dieser ...
I will survive! (Evan)
... no swaying after-effect you get from a boat). I was to falter on the latter of the two upon arriving in Costa Rica... Hitchiking. Disclaimer: Youngsters, don´t try this at home. It was the result of another destination blunder (we were ...
Volcan Arenal
We had yet another day of travel on the 7th to get to La Fortuna. First we left our hostel in Liberia and walked a few blocks to the Panamerican highway, there we flagged down a bus heading to the town of Canos an hour down the road. In Canos we had find ...
Day 19, La Fortuna and Arenal
Monday 21st July Spent the morning shopping and bought some earrings for Steph and a pura vida board. Had lunch with some of the guys from the school then me and Lara got the bus to La Fortuna at 2pm. Very long and bumpy journey but met a nice couple ...