Destination: Costa Rica

Tortuguero, trail mix, and hammock hostels

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 | By christina_wallace | Views [796]

After a twelve hour bus ride from Leon to San Jose on Saturday (including the longest line I have ever seen to get through customs at the border) I slept, ate, showered, and left San Jose just ten hours later. I had heard amazing things about an island ... Read more >

Tags: costa rica, hostels, puerto viejo, tortuguero

Gallery: Costa Rica, Rancho Mastatal

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 | By rachel_and_daniel | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Costa Rica, Manuel Antonio

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 | By rachel_and_daniel | Photo Gallery

still is tres peadras

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 | By bthall | Views [702]

So is it possible to keep having the BEST DAY EVER over and over again? I'm starting to feel like I'm living the life of josh nease, for those of you who know who he is will appreciate that anology...anyways, last sat. I went to the local rodeo and ... Read more >

Gallery: Costa Rica-Panama

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 | By dennispeper | Photo Gallery

Finally in Uvita!

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By seths-pad | Views [818]

              On Sunday arrived by bus in Uvita aroung 10pm at night the bus from San Jose took me about 8hrs. Ugh the roads are not paved so the bus drives slowly and because it is rainy season there are some major pot holes! Upon arriving in uvita ... Read more >

Gallery: TFI and Dominical

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 | By bthall | Photo Gallery

Costa Rica Upadate...

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 | By bthall | Views [628]

So...I was in Costa Rica for less then 24 hrs before we were robbed...awesome...on Tuesday we drove down to Dominical...what an adventure, the main way via the panamerican highway was washed out on one section because the the tropical storm a couple ... Read more >

Tamarindo and the surfers at my hostel

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 | By christina_wallace | Views [563]

I'm finishing up three days here at Playa Tamarindo, on the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect when I came here, given Lonely Planet's utter dismissal of this beach town, and after three hours on a sweltering ... Read more >

Tags: costa rica, hostels, tamarindo

Costa Rica e Panamá - parte caribenha

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 | By henrique | Views [3304] | Comments [1]

Essa foi uma carta destinada à família e amigos mais próximos Oi!!!   Nao sei qual foi a última vez que escrevi, em Português ou em Inglês mas vou contar meus passos a partir da parte caribenha da Costa Rica que eu considero imperdível para quem ... Read more >

Montezuma and Liberia

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By christina_wallace | Views [873]

Sorry it´s been so long since I´ve posted! Monday morning bright and early Chris, Megan, and I began the bus-ferry-bus journey to get us to Montezuma, a sleepy little beach town in the Nicoya penninsula. The weather was lovely leaving Monteverde, and ... Read more >

Tags: costa rica, montezuma, travel friends

the sketchiest place yet, abandoned beaches, tropical storms and new york city

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By aprillabbe | Views [1291] | Comments [1]

well what a trip, i suppose as this central america bit winds down we start to become a little more refelctive and the bottom line is that it has all been amazing! last time i wrote we had just arrived in honduras, we didn´t stay very long, teguciagalpa, ... Read more >

Bussed out!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 | By seths-pad | Views [603]

Yesterday we bussed from Tamarindo to Manuel Antonio. the ride took exactly 13hrs. It wouldn't be that bad accept that my legs don't fit in a costa rican bus at all!!! ugh.. Last night we had dinner in an old fighter plane that crashed 50 years ago and ... Read more >

<the adventure continues

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 | By seths-pad | Views [547] | Comments [1]

i left san jose after a great night of latin dancing with shivonne and johnny we were up until 3 am it was so much fun. we left on a bus to tamarindo the ride was about 6 hours and included a popped tire. here we are staying in a 2 bedroom cabin on the ... Read more >

Monteverde and my penchant for injury

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 | By christina_wallace | Views [761]

Hello once again, dear readers! Things have been lovely here in Monteverde though some drama has unfolded. But everything in its proper order.  Yesterday Chris, Megan, Adam, Tiera, and I went on a three-hour hike through the Santa Elena Reserves and ... Read more >

Tags: costa rica, im a klutz, montezuma