Blogs from Rockin J's, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Limón, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 2

We spent our last night in Cahuita at a restaurant called Miss Edith´s which served traditional Caribbean fare. The rain had subsided a little and we were lucky that for outr walk to the bus stop the next morning it was dry overhead. It is a short bus ride to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca where we are staying at the moment and will be till just after Xmas. It was a long walk with our backpacks to Rocking J´s hammock hostel, where tragically (enter sarcasm) they had lost our booking and we didn’t have hammocks reserved after all. Even worse (the sarcasm is dripping now) they had tents available too! Emma and I re therefore sharing a tent, which has to be the most surreal experience ever as the tents are “pitched” less than half a ... read more

After Bens bag and passport was stolen in Ecuador he had to fly down to peru to sort it all out. I had to find somewhere to wait for him for a week and unfortunatly I just had to spend the week lazing around in the warm water on the caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Walking down the dirt streets lined with coconut palms and market stalls selling anything that resembled Bob marley It felt like I was in Jamaica. The place was filled with Black caribbean locals most of who had long Rustas (dreadlocks) Nothing moved very fast in this town, It was very chilled out. A nice place to relax after all our travels in South America. It was a little holiday from my holiday! I slept in a hammock instead of a bed ... read more

So after the excitement we met in san jose it was nice to get to a new environment and what better place to do that but in a carribean inspired beach town. Puerto Viejo is located right on the coast near the costa rica-panama border. We stayed in a hostel called Rocking J´s and it was very cool, and very huge. It was probably half a city block, including a parking lot, a huge green grass area, a wooden area for bonfires and its own beach area. The main thing to do there is to stay in hammocks and in tents or cabinas, we happened to get the last cabinas available for 10 dollars a night. Our room was essentially a concrete cell and it was located right outside the kitchen (so we experienced interesting fumes ... read more

We decided that we needed some beach time to start off the vacation. So, we headed to the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. We went in Puerto Viejo and stayed at a crazy hostel called Rockin Js. The hostel is this huge compound esque of a place. There are dorm rooms, cabina´s(private room), tents, you can bring your own tent, or rent one of the many many hammocks to sleep in. There is also a tree house with more hammocks and chairs and a tv. They have a free kitchen to use and lots of picnic tables. It is located right on the beach and they even have a bonfire every night. Our first day there we spent basically just exploring the town. We walked along the beach , had lunch on the beach and went ... read more

Adios (caribbean for hello), I´m in a town called Puerto Viejo, more reminicent of Jamaica, then costa rica, and actually it surprises me how much I like it. The hostel is great, crazily decorated with tiles all over, various sculptures, and filled with about 50 tents, 50 hamocks, and a wild treehouse hovering above it all. Plus its right on the beach, and to top it off we were greeted with popsicles! :) The town is filled with Jamaican descendents, and thus rasta culture, ganja of course, carribean food blended with coconut juice, filled with surfers, and alternative folk. English is widely spoken. Yet it is also surrounded by beautiful waters, and again I experienced another exquisite sunset as the sillhoutes of futbol players danced around the beach. I´m here for a few days and have ... read more