Blogs from Manuel Antonio, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 11

Chugging along northward. Entered and arrived in Costa Rica with no problems. San Jose was my first visit. Lame lame city. This place was boring. Not much to do and see here. The city itself isn't nice either. I only stayed here for two days. Two days too long! Cruised it down to the Pacific coast. I visited Manuel Antonio National Park in the town of Manuel Antonio. You know, I've heard stories of a lot of Americans being here in Costa Rica. No freakin' joke! They are EVERYWHERE! Anyway, I did get to meet some cool folks though, an Irishman, Canadians, and yes, Americans. Manuel Antonio has beautiful beaches. When visiting the park, I got to see monkeys, sloths, colorful crabs, and other cool looking animals. Oh yeah and a raccoon, who stole a banana ... read more

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Costa Rica is beautiful! Our flight down on Jet Blue was at capacity - what recession! Because none of the streets have signs or numbers we thought it best to rent a GPS for our mini SUV. Unfortunately the GPS could not find our first destination. However, it was able to get us to the right neighborhood, but finding the hotel took some time and required us to ask for directions multiple times. Costa Ricans are not very specific when it comes to giving directions. They basically just point in one direction and insist we will find it. Eventually we did. If you have never been to San Jose, we would not reccommend spending any time there. It had lots of pollution, small one way streets, and not much to do. If you do find yourself ... read more

When planning the itinerary for the parents we had thought hard about whether to include Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica’s most visited reserve. Reports were that although a stunning strip of sand on the Pacific coast the rush to capitalise on the tourist dollar had rendered it rather characterless and overtaken by a few too many hotels. However, what we discovered on arrival, after finally emerging from our seemingly endless road though a mega farm of palm trees - used for palm oil, was a rather less developed scene than envisaged. There was of course a fairly hefty hotel presence but in the main most were tucked unassumingly back into the hill side with none close up to the beach. Plus even amongst the shops and bars behind the main tourist stretch of the beach there was ... read more

Hello Everyone! First off, Happy New Year! I know we are late but we have been moving around quite a bit. We hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and that the New Year is starting off great. After we left Granada we took a very wavy ferry ride to Ometepe Island. An island formed by two volcanoes. We stayed there for 3 days. It was a pretty area with the volcanoes in the background. We did some hiking and relaxing by the lake. The largest lake in Central America. We left there on the 29th becuase we decided to go back to San Juan Del Sur for New Years Eve. The four days spent there were great. We did lots more surfing and hanging out at great beaches. For New Years Eve they had ... read more