Santa Elena Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Schon ziemlich in Verzug mit meiner geplanten Reiseroute, bin ich immernoch in Santa Elena. Gestern habe ich das Schmetterlingmuseum besucht und heute das Reservat Monteverde.
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I had thought that I would skip Costa Rica and just go see Panama, but so many people come here that I had to see what all the fuss was about. The border crossing was insane, as many Nicaraguans were returning to Costa Rica to work after spending the holidays visiting family back home. There were two checkpoints after the border where everyone o...

Hey everyone!!!! My Xmas started out like any other day. I did some tours and had some fun and made bank with tips!!! Trotter and I were planning on just spending the night at the gardens eating hotdogs and playing cards, but our boss invited us to the hot springs in Las Juntas! It was awesome because it was an hour drive to get there and we sat...

The other night Trotter, Zak, Eli and I decided to do something amazing! We decided that we were going to climb a strangler fig tree. They are amazing trees! The S.F. is actually two trees, but the host tree on the inside gets strangled and the S.F. on the outside actually rots the other tree to gain its nutrients. So, in the really big S.Fs the...

On the 23rd we headed to San Jose to stay with Rob, a friend of Jesse's, who was teaching 5th grade in an international school there. The ride down from Monteverde was beautiful, lush green countryside dotted with coffee plantations. Then it earned of course, but we made it to Rob's without incident. Rob is a very nice guy, he took a 2 year cont...

Asaf The trip up to Monteverde was a long and uncomfortable bus ride from San Jose. The bus was old, it was hot and the italians in front of us would not open up the window >:( But on this five and a half hour ride we did catch beautiful glimpses of the surrounding mountains including our destination with it's cloud covered peaks. We arrived ...

Today it bucketed with rain in the morning so I had a nice quiet morning in my schwanky apartment (have I bragged about it yet?) playing Sudoku, drinking tea and doing a bit of studying. This morning as I lounged in my gorgeous sunken tub, I noticed a huge bug on my window. It was literally about 3 inches long and looked like a big leaf. Kind of...

I left Liberia for Monteverde around 8:30am. The bus goes to Canas first then to Tilaran. Then you have to catch a Monteverde bus which drop you off in Santa Elena. I recommend staying in Santa Elena since you get more stores and accomodations. I stayed at Pension Santa Elena. It costs $5 per night. The staff are so friendly and they direct you ...

Well, sorry for leaving you hanging. We certainly had a drama crossing the Costa Rican border at Penas Blancas. The first annoyance was the people on the bus trying to get you to pay them to fill out your immigration form, which was not even the right form. Then right as we got to the exit window, the guy tried to shut it and told us to rejoin a...

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 bought us dinner! We had some really good conversation and then had to say goodbye, because ...