Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 (edited) I'm back.. check out the new photos at the end of the thread. ************* Heading to Costa Rica very soon, anyone have any travel tips? I'm headed down to visit my brother who has been living there for 4 months. He says it's paridise. Him and his girlfriend have been living in a house overlooking the beach. The surfing is supposed to be great and it's been a childhood dream to surf and play music with my brother down south. pumped i am! Edited March 16, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Have a freakin' awesome time Jaydawg!!! I so wanted to get to CR this winter but it wasn't in the cards. If you have time, please keep a log and fill us all in when you return with your adventures, CR info, surf camps, best places to stay, etc...Man am I wishin' I could hide in your backpack!!! :crazy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldengrooves Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Just got back from Costa Rica thispast November, you'll have a wicked time!! Check out Dominical, Samara, Arenal (has Costies largest volcano), Santa Elena has the best rainforestes, you can do a canopy tour there which is quite fun. Uveta that's south of Dominical (really quiet huge beach with no one on it). Puerto Veijo it's on Carribean side right on the Panama border, if your down there I recommend going to Bocas Del Toro Panama, it;s beautiful there and up the highway from Puerto Veijo is a town called Cahiuta, nobobies there either, nice huge beaches. I'll see if I can dig up anymore info from my girlfriend...HAVE A BLAST!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenenbaum Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Jay,be careful swinging on any vines over there! My friend did once and she fell, busted her ankle, and sat on her ass for weeks and gained 25 pounds! True story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 ms.hux and I would love to find out more about Costa Rica from friends that have gone there. Please keep us informed! We are just sipping on a Cuban inspired rum punch at the moment, after reminiscing of Cuba. I finally found out that I can get Havana Club white rum at the LCBO in the market. Unfortunately, it's about 20 bucks more expensive than the Cuban price of 3.85. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldengrooves Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 watch the prices, it's geared towards Americans but you can still travel cheap, I'd reccomend to go to Nicaragua it's cheap and just a beautiful as Costa Rica, when we were down there we spent a lot of time in Guatemala which was really cheap and easy to get around. Return bus tickets on the Tica Bus (like the Greyhound, but nicer, Spanish movies, they feed you and it air conditoned)from San Jose to Guatemala City $100 US, it's a little long, but you get to see a lot of Central America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Thanks for all the input... going to make a short list of place to check out tonight.I just got my flight info...check this.. $430.05 (with taxes) return.wowie zowie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Fug! So how did you score the sweet airline ticket price? Through what service/agent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 I got it through the air transat website. I didn't really check around either, I saw that price and went for it. I leave tuesday! I'll keep you all in the loop, I'm going to playing some music down there with my brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic ChrisC Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 A friend of mine bought a beach house in Nosara, Costa Rica a couple years ago. Nosara is a surf town about 5 hours South of San Jose. She lives there about 5 months out of the year. She's converting the beach house into a surf shop that should open in May. Where does your brother live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 which area of the country will you be in, and for how long? i have plenty of tips for you, but if you could narrow it down a bit it would help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 I land in San Jose, but my brother is in Santa Teresa...on the Nicoya Penninsula, Guanagaste, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean.i'm so excited!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Nice one, Jay! Have yourself a blast, and keep us up to speed with how it all goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic ChrisC Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Check out this map...you can see where Santa Teresa is located, and a bit above it, also on the coast, you can see Nosara where my friend lives. Man, I need sunshine. http://www.nicoyapeninsula.com/general/map.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 (edited) you are going to a nice spot i'm sure you'll find plenty of awesome stuff down there. nosara, samara,carrillo, also very nice if you do go check out arenal, there are some hot springs (tabacon is the name i think) near there...really cool to soak in all these volcanic pools looking up at the volcano. monteverde is also nice but a bitch of a ride to get to...so if you go, stay awhile. i don't know how long you're staying, but if you do get off the nicoya, my top recommendations would be the osa peninsula (including corcovado natl park) and playa zancudo, which are both on the pacific side near panama. for sure! have a great trip! you are gonna freakin LOVE IT! Edited February 27, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payce-ley Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 a friend of mine's folks just bought a house down there, so obviously I'm hopin to go down and check it someday... they call it the most diverse ecosystem on the planet (deserts to rainforests to mountains to plains to oceanfront to temperate forest)awesome dude, lookin forward to hearing bout your journey... try and post an update while you're in the thick of it if you think of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 We went to the Imax in Hull to see the doc on bugs with our littlest today, and were reminded of what big range of the world's life lives in the world's rainforests. Soak up all you can (but don't get any ticks in your crotch; a friend told me it's a real bitch to have to deal with ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggo Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 ooo guanacaste! i think that's where the cloud forest is... either there or monteverde, can't recall... i stayed in quepos and went to school in manuel antonio - manuel antonio has a fantastic beach and national park. we saw lots of monkeys and 2 sloths in the park. i miss it! as far as travel advice, just use common sense. lots of petty thieves in any of the touristy spots. especially be careful in san jose and the coca cola district [yes it's really called that]. i'm very jealous - and you'll definitely need to know this expression - PURA VIDA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Wicked man, sounds awesome! Have a great trip!We are heading down to Belize in a couple of weeks, I'm so looking forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Costa Rica has no military whatsoever so if you can sneak in a gun or two you should be sitting pretty for a coup.Then we can all go down there with you and be your army.(I call first dibs on overthrowing jaydawgs regime) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted March 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 So I made it down here in one piece with my girl Vita, and after a crazy day of travelling... car ride, plane, cab, bus, ferry, bus, cab, we arrived in Santa Theresa and met up with my brother and his girlfriend Veronik. After the long ride we headed out to find some food, but at 11pm there wasn´t really anything open except for a new moon party.. so we checked that out...WOW! It was a crazy rave with about 200 travellers from all over dancing to a DJ who was playing techno and deep house. That was cool, we were just off beach and next thing you know there´s a live Digeredoo player and percussionists playing and people gathering around some performance artists who are doing firedancing, poi and Capeira (martial arts dance)... two girls twirling fire were standing on two mens shoulders who were also twirling fire... it was a crazy spectacle! It was like a tribal circle de soliel.This all lasted for a couple of hours and a couple of IMPERIALS (the native beer). Exhausted we headed out to my brothers cabin. Vita and I have been camping for the past two nights in some shady area by a jungle and we´ve been getting up really early, its so sunny here we´ve been up at 7 each morning. Today we´re going surfing and working on our tans. The beach is great, monkeys are everywhere.. they make some hideous screams... I can´t believe that i´m here for another 12 days! For now everything is just great, we´re in this comfortable little surf town and everyone is friendly. We did have a couple of things stolen, my CDs and my brothers MP3 player... we´re living in this very isolated area on the mountain with a great view of the long beach, but we´re finding out that you can never trust that you stuff is safe... i´ll be back at the computer in a couple of days.. but this place is amaizing and I hope to post some of the pictures of this place soon.love,j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenenbaum Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 tan it up Jaydawg,that farmer's tan of yours gots to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 Great to hear! All the best Jaydawg.~WPS I wonder what the monkeys think of you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 Dammit, if it weren't for the nice weather here today, I'd be really pissed off . Soak it all up, Jay; hope to see you again soon. And yes, make up for all those farmers' tans going on up here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 I wonder what the monkeys think of you?kindred spirit.one tall monkey.shaves too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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