Playa Del Costa Sur

Enjoy the journey..

... this time it's Central America. Starting in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) we travel though Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and end our trip in Panama. This part of the world offers so many different experiences from the history ...

Starting in Costa Rica and finishing in Cuba, this is an account of two people's travels in Central America. Just us, our backpacks and a guideboook, free to go where we want when we wantas long as we get to Havana by September 2 for our flight back home.

Travelling overland from Cancun, Mexico to San Jose, Costa Rica, flying to Peru to work for an NGO that helps to educate poor children, then exploring South America on a free-range basis. Main aims of the trip are to become more relaxed/less high- ...

studying abroad in puntarenas, costa rica. with a family that doesn't speak any english. they own a SODA (little restaurant). directly across the street from the huge soccer stadium. all my classes are in spanish, the teachers are sooo INCREDIBLE!!! ...

... es pura vida! Following the advice of the custom official in Costa Rica we directed ourselves to Playa Panama (Panama Beach), very near Playa del Coco, (Coconut Beach). The camping is in a large and well wooded area, two steps away from the beach. The ...

... . It was a really nice treat though. http://www.piedrasyolas.com The next morning we hopped busses until we arrived at Playa Del Coco back in Costa Rica. We certainly weren't fussy with the place. It was trying very hard to be Tamarindo but it was ...

While we were in San Juan Del Sur we were trying to decide where to go in Costa Rica and we really had no idea apart from Monte Verde where we wanted to go. A lot of people head to the west coast but the main resort of Tamarindo is for surfing and we were ...

... knowing about 7 or so people including Ayme and Emico, who I've travelled with heaps so far and who were coming from San Juan del Sur. After getting across the border we then had to pay a ridiculous price for a taxi because we would have been waiting ...

... to keep you in the dark for so long but Tracy and I were sucked into the black hole of Nicaragua. Also known as "San Juan del Sur", hereafter know as SJdS (because I dont like typing it everytime). We were there for about three weeks and met lots of ...

Last week Ross and I took a day trip south of San Juan del Sur to a small secluded beach close to the Costa Rican border. We were so impressed with the beach and the area that we have just booked a couple nights there this weekend. We found a really ...

... ambiance here is very laid back. There are lots of gringo expats and tourists here but it doesn't seem crowded. And San Juan del Sur has been a gringo haunt since gold was discovered in California in 1848. For easterners to get to the gold fields they ...

... fondly named hire car, it was time to say goodbye (much to our dismay). We drove up to Pinas Blancas, the border town of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and crossed our fingers that the man signing the car off didn't notice all the mud stains inside the car! ...

... prices really really low with all the taxi drivers and hostels and such.  So what a blessing, we took a taxi to SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua and experienced such beauty. We got a hostel for 5$ a night right across the street from the beach.  I ...

... beaucoup plus....le lit de la mer était plein des étoiles, grosses comme tout.   En revenant au Costa Rica, l´officer d´immigration a ecrit 90 jours sur le tampon d´entrée... je me demande s´il s´est trempé, mais je n´ose pas de ...

... . (now defunct to make room for another huge resort)  Back then the only thing on the 20 miles strip of beach called playa Costa Azul was the El Presidente near the estuary. It felt like you had the sand all to yourself. We would hunker ...

... , we decided to head towards the Pacific and find a good place to camp.  We stopped in San Juan del Sur and met a German guy who recommended we go to Playa Madera, about 8 Km up a dirt road. We did that but when we got to Playa Madera, there was a ...

... , Ian here. After Isla De Omtepe, we headed to the Nicaraguan south coast to the seaside town of San Juan Del Sur. This town has in recent years become the overwhelmingly popular choice of destination for Nicaraguans on their seaside vacations. This ...

... although intimidating at first! The day went surprisingly smooth, I was impressed at how well our connecting buses lined up. San Juan del Sur was AWESOME. Definitely a place to stay and invest some money. We met a lot of people who were doing just ...

Our final destination in Nicaragua was San Juan Del Sur, a small town on the Pacific Ocean near the Costa Rican border. The actual town is on a little bay so there is really not much surfing there, but the better surf beaches are mostly a bit north and ...