Blogs from Santa Teresa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean

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In the Nicoya Peninsula, Santa Teresa is a small beach town that attracts tourists for its clean beaches and surf scene. I traveled to Santa Teresa from Samara by a shuttle (the public bus infrastructure is not good here). My hostel was on the main road (Santa Teresa has just one road where everything is available). I spent 4 days there, enjoying the beaches, the sunsets, hanging with other travelers at the hostel. And I began to realise that this trip is becoming about Chasing Sunsets. Will let the sunset pictures explain why. I also did a day trip to Tortuga Island, famous with tourists for white sand beach, Aqua Marine waters and snorkeling. You go there on a boat ride from Montezuma, another small beach town half an hour away from Santa Teresa. The boat ... read more
Santa Teresa
Santa Teresa
Santa Teresa


Santa Teresa... We only stayed in Santa Teresa for one night, but there were two main highlights for me, number one being the ocean view that I woke up to in the morning, and number two, taking a yoga class in front of said view. We had left Playa Grande four hours behind us by car; our friend Hector had driven us down the Pacific Coast to reach our destination. It's always fun getting to know a local as they share their pride in their country...well that may depend which country you are in. Three quarters of the way into the drive, we stopped at a local "soda" (cafe) for some lunch. I had the most delicious home made tortilla with avocado and egg. It tasted of pure fresh maize and this memorable meal cost me ... read more
Horizon Yoga, Santa Teresa
Goodnight Santa Teresa
Soda (cafe)


Température : 30 – 35°, il fait très très chaud, et on est en hiver ! Humidité : max Temps : très ensoleillé (sauf une bonne grosse pluie entre 15h et 17h tous les jours) Après une journée de transport en bus, nous découvrons la ponctualité sans faille des chauffeurs de bus. « Il part à quelle heure ce bus ? » «Il part quand il est plein » « bon, bon… » Nous prenons ensuite le ferry et arrivons à Santa Teresa, le paradis des surfeurs, au bout de la Péninsule Nicoya sur la côte pacifique du Costa Rica. Ambiance très cool, tout le monde a l’air tout le temps en vacances ici… ! Les mecs sont tous des abdos comme des tablettes de chocolat, les cheveux longs, blonds, bien bronzés, américains ou néo-zélandais. Pour ... read more
Playa Hermosa


Hola amigos y familia, We currently are chillin' 30 feet from the Pacific, watchin' the tide come in, cocktail in hand. Pura Vida! Our second week in Costa Rica was drastically different from the comforts of Peninsula Papagayo. We have covered a lot of ground using various means of transportation, no donkey rides yet, but hopefully soon. We spent a few days in Tamarindo aka Tamagringo. Nice place, sweet beach, but very Americanized. We then slid a little further south down the Nicoya Peninsula to Santa Teresa, a great little sleepy surf town. As it turns out, Becky and I are the only gringos in Costa Rica that aren't covered in tats and have dreads, at least not in the surfer towns. I spent an aftertoon surfing, caught some nice waves, severely abraided a nipple and ... read more
Hangin' Five?
Montezuma Falls


We wrote a blog about our Quad tour but somehow it got published without sending out emails to everyone---it's still a mystery why but this is a quick update and hopefully you'll be able to 'see previous entry' titled Quad tour and the beach if you want to read it and see pictures. Tomorrow we leave this beach and drive and ferry up to San Jose where we'll stay in the same B&B we've been before. We'll then fly from there (in a little airplane which I'm not too excited about) to Bocas del Toro, Panama where we will stay for a week. Sometime while we're there, we'll post one more time before heading back on March 15.... read more


Last Friday, everyone in our resort (a family with 2 kids, and 2 other couples and us) went on a 4-wheeling 'quad' tour. Brad and Tara (from Canada) own the resort and Brad loves to take people out on the quad tour. He arranges for the quads to be delivered here and depending on the tide, he takes groups out. We did it last year and enjoyed it so much we wanted to do it again but when we first arrived in early Feb. he was taking a group out the next day and since low tide was early, they had to leave at 7:00 AM and even then had to take the 'high' road back. We said we'd wait until the next time we were here so last Friday we were able to leave at ... read more
We're getting ready to leave
Driving down the beach
Down dusty roads


Geo: 9.65, -85.1833Snaking thin along the coast sit lots of dusty beach towns--towns only in the loosest sense. More accurately, they're a string of restaurants, mini markets and bikini shops with a soccer field and school thrown in for the locals.But Santa Teresa on the Nicoya Peninsula doesn't disappoint, all the same.At the peak of the tourist season it's hot, dusty, expensive and vibrant. It ROCKS. The guys are buff, the girls fit and everyone's in bikinis. There are enough surf boards to stretch across the country and no one's over 30, so if you're young and can go out dressed in strings without embarrassing yourself, this is your kind of place. But like Bob says, after a while they all look the same. The girls are all as big around as your thumb and the ... read more
Jim and Quinn
Bob, being Bob
No Swimsuit? No Problem!




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