Title: Julie and Mike Zipline the Jungle Canopy in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica Type: Video Date: 2010-07-03 Author: SkinnersPidgeon 
| 90 meters hig, 2 km long, and smiles a mile wide
Recommendation: Reserve your own zipline adventure! |
Title: El nido de la Kukula Type: News Article Date: 2010-07-02 Author: Su Casa 
|  Playa Chiquita's Kukula Lodge was featured in Su Casa magazine, a magazine about architecture and design in Costa Rica. The photo gallery is amazing even if you don't read Spanish
Luz Letelier y Pietro Stagno concretaron el sueño de una pareja enamorada del Caribe. En Playa Chiquita, Limón, el ecolodge La Kukula creció en medio del bosque, tan simple y tan complejo como eso.
El desvío por una calle empedrada parece acabar en el bosque. Y por poco lo logra: en medio de un verdor exuberante apenas se divisa un conjunto de naves en madera, camufladas como la propia fauna, latente y expectante.
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Title: Puerto Viejo, Luis Angel Castro, Costa Rica Type: Video Date: 2010-05-30 Author: rodolfojrr 
| Beautiful video of Puerto Viejo with music from local musician and singer Luis Angel Castro.
Puerto Viejo (Walaba), Luis Angel Castro, cantautor costarricense. Música caribeña. Obra dedicada al puerto homónimo del Caribe costarricense, internacionalizada por Ana Belén |
Title: Jungle Love Type: Video Date: 2010-05-28 Author: DavidsBeenHere 
| Video review of Jungle Love Cafe in Playa Chiquita |
Title: Surf for Life - Jaimal Yogis Type: Video Date: 2010-05-10 Author: Surf for Life
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Title: In Costa Rica, a Home Without Walls Type: News Article Date: 2010-05-04 Author: The New York Times 
|  One day in February 2002 Manuel Pinto and his real estate agent were hacking through the jungle here in southeast Costa Rica, near the surf town of Puerto Viejo, looking for a property for sale within the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife refuge.
At one point the agent suggested they give up, but Mr. Pinto pressed on and finally, an hour later, they found the nine-acre plot. Substantially overgrown, they recognized it by some concrete steps and a shack that the previous owner had left behind.
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Title: Puerto Viejo: A Visual Experience Type: Photo Album Date: 2010-04-26 Author: The Disillusioned Graduate 
|  A complete collection of photographs by TheDisillusionedGraduate from his two month intrentchment in Puerto Viejo.
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Title: Travelogue Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Type: Blog Date: 2010-04-25 Author: The Disillusioned Graduate
|  A hilarious retrospective storytelling of a two month stay in Puerto Viejo by a recent college graduate. Full of colorful characters and honest experiences.
I graduated from college in May, 2008, and the outlook was grim. The economy was in the toilet and Bachelor Degrees were about as useful and sought after as snowtires in Texas. I am part of the generation for advanced education…Where young people with a college education are some of the most in-debt and in-experienced.
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Title: Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast: Super Cheap and Super Fun! Type: Blog Date: 2010-04-22 Author: Mary Mudd 
|  Depending on where you go in Costa Rica you can spend a fortune or get by on ridiculously little. Although the country itself is very small its tourist hot spots comprise a wide range of cultural diversity and offer
many different microclimates. If you choose to stay in the Arenal Volcano area near La Frotuna for instance, don't expect $200 to go very far at all! Most hotels are around $100 per night, and although there are a couple of hostels, the cost of a local restaurants and activities will run up quite the tab in no time!
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Title: With the Surfers on Costa Rica’s Untamed Coast Type: News Article Date: 2010-04-04 Author: The New York Times
|  SOME vacation destinations attract tourists. Others attract disciples. The surfer town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca and the tiny beach communities southeast of it, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, are of the latter variety.
This wild, often overlooked coastal stretch, an 11-mile-long necklace of small sandy coves located in southern Limón province, may be in one of Costa Rica’s poorest areas, but it’s also one of the most diverse, populated by a blend of Costa Ricans, English-speaking Afro-Caribbeans, indigenous Cabecar and Bribri Indians, and plenty of expatriates, from French fashion designers to old German hippies.
Recommendation: Visit the Gandoca-Manzanillo Refuge |
Title: Amimodo Type: Video Date: 2010-03-19 Author: DavidsBeenHere
| Video review of Amimodo Restaurant |
Title: The many colors of Costa Rica Type: Photo Album Date: 2010-03-14 Author: Angela Gerber 
|  Winston and I traveled to Costa Rica last week. We flew in and out of San Jose, the capital city, but spent a week in the Peurto Viejo area on the Caribbean coast. I loved the laid back, Rasta vibe that you can only find in the Caribbean. And this area is beautiful! We had a great time, despite the downpour of rain the first couple of days. We visited an animal reserve, where local abandoned and injured animals were being rehabilitated to return to their natural habitat. We biked our way down the Puerto Viejo to Manzanillo pot-holed road, and visited a couple wonderful national parks. We stayed in a cabina that was in the jungle, but had a view of the Ocean, and woke up daily to howler monkeys in the trees outside our door.
Recommendation: Visit the animal rescue center |
Title: La naturaleza tiene sus planes (Nature has its plans) Type: Video Date: 2010-03-12 Author: Anna Essenza
| Documentary filmed in July 2008. In a Caribbean village in Costa Rica a group of young surfers are organized to prevent the construction of a marina that would ruin the reef. When all seems lost nature intervenes.
Documentario. En un pueblito del Caribe en Costa Rica un grupo de jóvenes surfistas se organizan para impedir la construcción de una marina que arruinaría el arrecife de la costa. Cuando todo parece perdido la naturaleza interviene |
Title: Surviving A Massive Earthquake and Tsunami: What It Feels Like Type: Blog Date: 2010-03-05 Author: Steve Casimiro
|  In April 1991, Costa Rica was struck by a 7.6 or 7.7 scale earthquake (experts still don’t agree on the magnitude). My girlfriend (now wife) Joni and I were in the far southeastern corner of the country, warming up in the Caribbean after a long winter. On this day, we’d rented bikes in a village called Cahuiti, rode a half-dozen miles south to Puerto Viejo, and spent the afternoon lounging on the beach. Around 3:30, clouds moved across the sun and at 3:57, as we were about to leave, the earthquake hit. This is what happened next.
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Title: Costa Rica…with more detail Type: Blog Date: 2010-03-03 Author: Janna Polzin 
|  Costa Rica was absolutely beautiful. The leaves were green, the air was moist, the people were relaxed, the beer was refreshing, and the sand crabs were really really cool.
The journey started with a 3:30 am pickup from home to get to the airport for a 6:20 flight. Awesome. US customs guy was really mean. Though I think I would be if I was working at 4:30 am. Flights were fine, stopover in Miami was fine. Finally got to San Jose at about 2ish. We arranged a pickup from the airport to the bus station that was halfway across town. Our driver told us that there is around 5 million people in Costa Rica and 2 million of them are all in San Jose. Crazy. Grabbed a bus at 4 and spent the next 4.5 hours getting to the Caribbean coast. There was a delay in the mountains because of a lot of atmospheric fog! We finally arrived in Puerto Viejo after 19 hours of trying to get there. Good stuff.
Recommendation: Book your transportation through Gecko Trail Adventures! |
Title: Best Affordable Beach Resorts Type: News Article Date: 2010-03-01 Author: Travel+Leisure Magazine 
|  Two Puerto Viejo hotels have been featured in the 2010 list of "The Best Affordable Beach Resorts" in the March 2010 issue of Travel+Leisure magazine. Out of 42 hotels worldwide (and no others in Costa Rica), the editors chose Banana Azul (#18) and Le Cameleon (#19).
There’s nothing like a little sand between your toes. These seaside resorts—all $250 or less per day—promise sun and the simple life.
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Title: For Randolph student, Costa Rica project was ‘paradise’ Type: News Article Date: 2010-02-26 Author: Randolph Reporter
|  Like any small Costa Rican village, Manzanillo is rural, impoverished, and what Kayla Hastrup calls “paradise.”
Hastrup, a 2006 Randolph High School graduate now a senior communications major at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, was among 10 students selected to spend 10 days in the Central American country last month as part of the school’s Alternative Break service project program.
From Jan. 6 through Jan. 16, she helped add a bathroom to the village’s small, four-room grade school, gardened, and cleaned a two-mile stretch of beach along the pacific Caribbean Sea.
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Title: Getting a Life in Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2010-02-15 Author: Benita Hussain 
|  I am beginning to feel alive again, slowly but surely, here in Costa Rica. Every drip of sweat that makes its way over my collarbones and down my top is another piece of New York's winter and aggression that leaves my body. And, I swear, there is a lot of sweat, caked underneath rain, mud, horse manure and salt water.
My first three days were spent heading south to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, a Caribbean town 30km north of the Panama's border, and settling into my home for the next 2.5 months: a room in the Playa Cocles jungle/mountain home of Edwin Salem (below-right), one of the original Mavericks surfers, owner of Seahorse Stables, and a friend of my girl June's father.
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Title: Ziplining in paradise Type: News Article Date: 2010-02-09 Author: St John Telegram 
|  You stare straight ahead of you, feeling the sweat break out all over your body - a sweat brought on not only by the heat, but also by nerves and anticipation.
You are perched on a platform mounted in a treetop too many feet above the ground to think about. Your field of vision presents you with lush vegetation, blue sky and a gorge that you know has a bottom only because you can hear the roaring river lost in the undergrowth way below. Barely visible on the other side of this chasm is another platform similar to the one you now occupy. It is your destination.
Recommendation: Go on a zipline adventure! |
Title: South Caribbean Adventures: Puerto Viejo de Talamanca & The Organic Feria Type: Blog Date: 2010-02-01 Author: Just Making Noise
|  This is the beginning of many posts to come about our adventures in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca located on the southern part of the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. The drive down there was beautiful and a whole different world from the Pacific side of Costa Rica. We drove through a breathtaking rainforest reserve, over many rivers , past large banana & pineapple plantations and miles of coconut trees along the coast. Can you tell that I've fallen in love with the Caribbean?!
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Title: Saying goodbye to Costa Rica! Type: Blog Date: 2010-01-27 Author: Nikkie Wolf 
|  Yes, finally I am tearing myself away from Central America and heading south so I thought I'd give you a quick update on what I've been up to and what happens next!
I've been keeping myself busy since my last post. I came back to Puerto Viejo for New Year which was a bit of a culture shock. 2 weeks deep in the jungle and then arriving back in the party town of Puerto the day before New Year. The town was packed and spirits were high so a good time was had by all. Needless to say I over-indulged and felt awful the next day but that is what NY eve is all about isn't it?
Recommendation: Go diving! |
Title: A perfect week at Banana Azul, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Type: Video Date: 2010-01-25 Author: acaciamul 
| The Banana Azul resort was the perfect backdrop for a New Year's vacation. |
Title: Seeking sun and savings Type: News Article Date: 2010-01-24 Author: Patricia Borns, Boston Globe
| Does your favorite winter sport require surf wax not ski wax? For heat on the cheap, we scoured the warm zone for destinations with great packages, or lodging options under $130 a night, and recent round-trip airfares from Boston under $450. Then we applied our rating system: high scores for barefoot simplicity, debits for resort crowds. And the winners are . . .
Puerto Viejo
Small it may be, but Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast was a surfing insiders’ mecca that exploded when the 1994 sequel to “Endless Summer’’ revealed it to the world.
Recommendation: Do an overnight tour to Tortuguero |
Title: Photos taken in Puerto Viejo on Flickr Type: Photo Album Date: 2010-01-07 Author: Flickr Users 
|  Various photos and videos taken by Flickr users which are geotagged as taken in Puerto Viejo. There are some wonderful images of Puerto Viejo here.
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Title: Costa Rica: Day 8 Type: Blog Date: 2010-01-06 Author: Tyler Ingram 
|  Alright, the last couple days of our Costa Rica trip were fairly busy so on Day 8 but we were booked to do a Sea and River Kayak trip at Punta Uva. This trip was to replace the snorkeling trip we did not get to do due to the size of the waves, but in the end it was very enjoyable.
We were picked up at the Banana Azul and headed into Punta Uva with 4 other people (2 Americans and a couple from Romania). Once we got to Punta Uva and the Kayaks were unloaded we got into them and floated around a bit as our guide helped the other people learn to paddle. Robyn and I took level 1 kayaking at Deep Cove in 2008 so we were pretty comfortable on the water.
Recommendation: Do the Kayaking trip at Punta Uva |
Title: Costa Rica: Day 6 Type: Blog Date: 2010-01-01 Author: Tyler Ingram
|  The plan for Day 6 was to head into Manzanillo rainforest (Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Gandoca-Manzanillo) with a local guide, so we did just that. We were picked up at the Banana Azul at 7am (5am for you pacific time people) and headed into Puerto Viejo to pick up our guide Ricky and continue on to Manzanillo.
The park spans from Manzanillo south down to the Panama boarder encompassing 5,013 hectares of land and 4,436 hectares of ocean. It protects 70% of the Southern Caribbean coast.
You can tell that Manzanillo area is more of a daytime area as it was pretty quiet. No one in the streets, no cars parked, nobody at the beach.
Recommendation: Go to the Gandoca-Manzanillo Reserve with a guide |
Title: Costa Rica: day 5 Type: Blog Date: 2009-12-31 Author: Tyler Ingram
|  Day 5 of our stay at Puerto Viejo was not as grueling as our trek up the beach into Cahuita, but it was just as interesting if not a little bit more.
Even though today is Day 6 here in Puerto Viejo, I did not have time to work on a post for Day 5 as it was pretty busy. We first caught a Taxi from the Banana Azul into Puerto Viejo though that wasn’t our intended destination. We originally were going to take the taxi all the way to the Jaguar Rescue Centre which is south of Puerto Viejo, closer to Punta Uva.
Did I mention I am writing this post from the comfort of our hammock? If only we had a bigger place in the West End, I would so set myself up in a hammock.
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Title: Costa Rica: day 4 Type: Blog Date: 2009-12-30 Author: Tyler Ingram
|  Day 4 here in Costa Rica has proven to be adventurous. We took a suggestion from the Lonely Planet Guide for Costa Rica and traveled roughly 10Km along the beach up towards Cahuita (Parque Nacional Cahuita).
Parque Nacional Cahuita at just 1067 hectares and is one of the more frequently visited national parks in Costa Rica. Primarily made up of Coconut Palms and Sea Grapes, it also includes a swampy area at Punta Cahuita. Granted we never made it that far to see the swampy area with Mango tress, but later this week we will be doing a snorkeling and hiking tour of the Cahuita park in more detail.
Recommendation: Explore Cahuita N.P. with a guide |
Title: Hotel Banana Azul in Puerto Viejo Type: Video Date: 2009-12-19 Author: Isabelle & Alain
| Hotel Banana Azul in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica, a very nice & comfortable hotel built out of local hardwoods that has 12 beautiful guest rooms, situated on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. One phrase to describe Banana Azul: This place is paradise! The hotel is beautiful; the food is fantastic; the beach is gorgeous...and the staff and owners are great! |
Title: Monkeys Mean Business at Congo Bongo Type: News Article Date: 2009-12-04 Author: Tico Times 
|  There's a "West Side Story" playing out on Costa Rica's southeastern coast. On one side of the road, the gangs are known as white-faced and spider. On the other, the howler, or congo, gang rules.
This, of course, refers to the monkeys in the Caribbean Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, and during this Tico Times visit, things seem rather peaceful on their turf. However, the howlers - the largest of the New World monkey species - are wont to disrupt the calm and are winning at least one battle: control over the sound waves. Their cries can be heard five kilometers away.
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Title: Caribbean Surf Scene Type: Photo Album Date: 2009-12-02 Author: CRSurf 
|  Photos of the surfing beaches and surf shops in Puerto Viejo and area.
Recommendation: Learn to surf! |
Title: Day Two: Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2009-10-25 Author: ezwriter 
|  Day two started out bright and early. Made my morning trek into a deserted Puerto Viejo (everyone else is still asleep from the partying the night before) planning on breakfast prior to my morning snorkel trip with Reef Runners. Our group was meeting at 8:30am - - being up and out by 7 meant I had plenty of time for breakfast and a couple of cups of (yummy!) coffee.
Surprises started with a couple of horses grazing in a ocean-front field next to the dive center and the bus station. Not sure where they came from, or where they go during the day, but it was not a bad way to start your morning. Luckily, in the same building as the dive center is Soda Louisa - - and they open at 6am! No one here spoke any English, so ordering was a challenge.
Recommendation: Take a snorkel trip with Reef Runner! |
Title: First Whole Day in Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2009-10-24 Author: ezwriter
|  I arrived late into Puerto Viejo late on 10/23 after my whitewater trip down the Pacuare River. My outfitter, Expladores Outdoors including a transfer to my hotel free of charge in my raft package. This is a fantastic service and they literally delivered me to the front door of my hotel.
It was around 5pm - - already well past sunset in this part of the world. I checked in, got cleaned up and took a taxi into town to have dinner. Early evening is actually pretty quiet - as a party town - - people don't come out until later and then stay out all night. Given the rain, the darkness and the fact that I had NO IDEA what I was dealing with, I decided to turn in early and be ready to take on the town in the light of day.
Recommendation: Take the rafting trip to get to Puerto Viejo |
Title: Prozac for the conscience Type: News Article Date: 2009-10-23 Author: Georgia Brown, Mail & Guardian
| Two surfers cycle past me clutching their boards as a local Rastafarian waves them a salute from his spot under a beach palm tree. Waves break on golden sand, backed by a snaking ribbon of slender palms and tropical green foliage -- it’s a scene you could market as visual Prozac.
It’s not hard to see why Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is one of the most popular destinations...
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Title: Interbus a Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2009-10-20 Author: Tyler and Coraleigh 
|  Today we rode the Interbus from San Jose to Puerto Viejo. It was really convenient and it picked us up right from our hotel and dropped us off at our place in Puerto Viejo. We left at 7:40am and got here around 12:30pm. What a crazy ride, but for you moms out there it was totally 100% safe with no banditos :O) We picked up four other people before leaving San Jose. A local dentist going to a clinic, a local businesswoman traveling to a hotel, and an Australian guy that was looking to study Spanish in San Jose for 6 months, but changed his mind after 2 days there. hahaha. Along the way we passed all the major banana farms like Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte. We drove on some twisty roads through the mountains and rainforest, and along gravel roads by the beach. This place is really out here in the middle of nowhere.
Recommendation: Book Interbus to Puerto Viejo |
Title: Faux Green, Land Rover Liberal, BoBo's aren’t just in Newburyport Type: News Article Date: 2009-09-10 Author: Michael Cook
| I recalled that column the other night, as Frank and I sat on the upper level of the southern California “BoBo” chic restaurant in the new, glitzy mini-mall built, you guessed it, by an American “Faux Green, Land Rover Liberal, BoBo” who blew into town a couple of years ago with a trust fund as big as all outdoors and decided he was going to remake Puerto Viejo in his own image, or at least his Calfornia hometown’s image.
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Title: Business serves body, mind, spirit Type: News Article Date: 2009-08-04 Author: Christine Gwidt, Charlevoix Courier
|  In May, in a small coastal village near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, Heidi Dietrich studied at the Samasati Yoga Retreat Center with 20 other students from all over the world to earn her accreditation as a yoga instructor.
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Title: Costa Rica 2009 > Puerto Viejo Type: Photo Album Date: 2009-08-02 Author: Lori Sorrentino 
|  Beautiful photo album from a visit to Puerto Viejo. Lovely images of people, places as well as animals from the Rescue Center.
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Title: A taste of Costa Rica's Caribbean coast Type: News Article Date: 2009-08-01 Author: Matthew Meeks, World Traveler Examiner 
|  “You want pineapple!?” Before I can even answer he jerks the car off the road into an earthy driveway and the beautiful scenery is now blocked by a cloud of dust and dirt. Juan Carlos, my overly friendly taxi-cab driver, slides open the door of the van, insisting (in a mix of English and Spanish) that I get out and follow him. Mind you, it’s my first day in this foreign country, somewhere between San Jose (the capital) and the Caribbean coastline. I turn and look at my friend, shrug my shoulders and say oh-so-encouragingly, “We‘re on vacation! C’mon!” Having a native pick fresh wild pineapple and slice it open on the side of the road was just the first taste of my tropical trek through Costa Rica.
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Title: Jungle Fever on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast Type: Blog Date: 2009-07-30 Author: Chris Gray 
|  As the howls of spider monkeys echoed around our forested cabin, I tried to open my eyes – only to find that they were crusted shut. “This is not good,” I called out to Don, who was doing a scorpion check of the bathroom. He came out, his eyes red around the rims. “Great, I have it too,” he groused. “There’s no way we’re going to be able to pass this off.”
We were in Tortuguero- a national park on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast that gave new meaning to remote. We had taken two buses and a two-hour boat ride down jungle-lined canals to get here, mostly so we could witness the spectacle of giant sea turtles nesting on the beach at night...
Recommendation: Go rafting on the Pacuare River to get to Puerto Viejo |
Title: Yamangurl's travel to Costa Rica Type: Blog Date: 2009-07-07 Author: Yamagurl 
|  The camera gear will be in tow and I am salivating at the thought of digitally capturing all the flora and fauna Costa Rica is famous for, not to mention the local flavor.
I have intentionally not pre-planned any activities. Instead, I will awake each day and while I enjoy a cup of that wonderful Costa Rican coffee I will decide what it is I want to do and where I want to go. If anything at all.
I will be staying at a small hotel called Cabinas Guarana, a small property up the road from the beach that is owned by an Italian couple.
Recommendation: Travel via Interbus |
Title: Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore Type: News Article Date: 2009-07-04 Author: Gabe McCarthy, SF Living Abroad Examiner 
|  Air travel is hectic and expensive, often crowded and seems to rarely turn out exactly as planned. The trip from the airport and capital city of San Jose to the Caribe side of Costa Rica makes the airborne leg of the trip seem both insignificant and vale la pena, worth the pain.
The Limon and Talamanca provinces occupy the Eastern shore of Costa Rica. The port city of Limon, the largest and most fiscally significant city on the Caribbean in this country, is charged with the movement and mechanization of any large city and bustles with locals and tourists alike, all pursuing capitalistic endeavors. Cargo ships dwarf the harbor and giant Lego blocks stamped with Dole and Del Monte crowd their decks. It is through this deep water port that the great majority of Costa Rica's chief export leaves.
Recommendation: Get your bus ticket in advance with airport pickup |
Title: EnM's World: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Type: Photo Album Date: 2009-06-27 Author: EnM 
|  Puerto Viejo photo journal with some recommendations on where to stay and where to eat.
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Title: Banana Azul in Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2009-06-26 Author: Lily N 
|  We stayed in the Apartment at Banana Azul for a week. The Apartment was the owners’ residence until they finished their home just a few meters away from the property. As a result, their pets would often wander up and sleep on the furniture in the Apartment. We had two cats who regularly visited and Benji the Dog. All were polite and lovely pets and it really made it feel like home for us because we have three dogs and two cats at home. There was an amazing open-air bathroom with a deep tub and shower that faced out into the forest. The apartment is on the second floor so no one was “looking in” while we showered.
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Title: The Volun-Tourist: Learning to surf Type: Blog Date: 2009-06-26 Author: Anna Salinas
|  Here’s how I feel about hammocks: they’re too small. They’re not suited for stomach-sleepers. They rock too much. There’s no place to tuck in your sheets.
But for one weekend, I decided to put aside my hammock hate and settle down in the aptly named hostel, Rocking J’s. The place is in Puerto Viejo, a tiny beach town on the east coast that’s become a popular haven for backpackers, local surfers, and surfing backpackers.
And like the Rasta-influenced town, Rocking J’s feels overwhelmingly Caribbean. “Por favor, vaya a la playa,” requests a sign in the lobby. Beside the text are two marijuana leaves ex-ed out in red lines.
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Title: Don Faust > Travel > Costa Rica Type: Photo Album Date: 2009-06-09 Author: Don Faust 
|  Photos from trip to Costa Rica including Puerto Viejo, Cahuita and Tortuguero. Great selection from a talented photographer!
Recommendation: Go to Tortuguero |
Title: Costa Rica's lesser-known Caribbean town of Puerto Viejo Type: Blog Date: 2009-06-09 Author: Budget Travel Magazine 
|  Whenever anyone writes about Costa Rica they're usually referring to the west coast or the string of volcanoes. But I reckon the best place in Costa Rica is the little publicized Caribbean coast—untouched by mass tourism, no big resorts or group tourism, beaches that rival anything the 'traditional Caribbean' has to offer—and all without a hefty price tag.…
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Title: Snorkeling Punta Uva Type: Video Date: 2009-05-11 Author: Condé Nast 
| Condé Nast Traveler senior assistant editor Alex Pasquariello tests out his Flip Ultra camcorder underwater in Punta Uva.
Recommendation: Book a snorkeling tour |
Title: Forming pyramids and frightening the children Type: Photo Album Date: 2009-04-19 Author: Bruce McIntyre
|  Photos from 2008 Costa Rica trip: Puerto Viejo. Lots of photos from Banana Azul, Flowers and life everywhere!
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Title: New Guesthouses Offer ‘Barefoot Luxury’ on Southern Caribbean Coast Type: News Article Date: 2009-02-13 Author: Tico Times
|  The new Geckoes Lodge on the southern Caribbean coast is a place to sit back, relax and leave your watch behind. About a kilometer inland from the beach on Cocles' Margarita Road, a gorgeous expanse of unspoiled jungle holds four houses: two for guests, one for the full-time staff and one belonging to owners Zoë Courtier and Tom Keller.
Recommendation: Book a Romance & Adventure package at Geckoes Lodge |
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