Title: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica: An easygoing paradise Type: News Article Date: 2012-01-28 Author: North Jersey 
|  New Yorker Kenneth Holbrook, 46, a creative consultant with an office in Paterson, was moved by the generosity of a former colleague. After all, the offer was hard to believe: an all-expense-paid, five-figure vacation to paradise.
Punta Uva Beach, above, is one of Puerto Viejo's many stretches on the Caribbean.
A bungalow that's on the market with another house as a $200,000 package deal. The trip, a reward for making an introduction that led to a lucrative business deal, involved three weeks of hop-scotching across the Caribbean.
His final destination before returning home was Costa Rica, the Central American nation wedged between Nicaragua and Panama. While there, he found his way to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, often called Puerto Viejo for short, a charmingly ramshackle former fishing village on the Caribbean Sea near the Panama border.
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Title: Puerto Viejo Beaches Type: Photo Album Date: 2011-12-19 Author: Jess Cause 
|  Photos of various Puerto Viejo beaches
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Title: El Alma del Caribe Type: News Article Date: 2011-12-14 Author: Ego 
|  Uno se pregunta cómo es posible que
Puerto Viejo sea el secreto mejor
guardado de Costa Rica durante treinta
años. Algunos piensan que el clima lo
hace poco rentable para la inversión
hotelera masiva, lo que constituye uno
de sus atributos. En realidad, la cadena
de playas que va desde Playa Negra hasta Manzanillo,
pasando por Chiquita, Cócles y Punta Uva, muestra un
modelo emparentado con el desarrollo de un turismo
sostenible y diferente: reservas naturales al lado de playas
exuberantes, centros de yoga y masajes junto a hoteles
boutique y restaurantes gourmet de pocas mesas, cultura popular
al lado de diseño inteligente, sostenibilidad y respeto por la
naturaleza en todas partes y un ritmo que acentúa lo que
realmente vale la pena: vivir en armonía.
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Title: Indigenous eco-lodge welcomes first guests in Costa Rica Type: News Article Date: 2011-11-11 Author: Tico Times 
|  Fifteen years ago, a group of 32 Bribrí women from Watsi, Talamanca, formed one of the first indigenous tourist and agriculture associations in Costa Rica. Since then, Amuprowa has been welcoming tourists, students and volunteer groups from all over the world to this rural corner of southeastern Costa Rica. On Oct. 26, the group opened Kabata U Indigenous Eco-lodge to enable tourists and small vocational or volunteer groups to share in the life of a typical indigenous community.
At 6 a.m. on inauguration day, men from the village were scurrying at an unusually fast pace from one corner of the new lodge to the other, putting the last pieces of tree-bark floor in place. Three Amuprowa women sat in the lodge’s jungle garden, weaving the last palm leaves to the bamboo branches they had harvested the day before.
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Title: Love aboard Captain Morgan's Ship: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Type: Blog Date: 2011-10-30 Author: bskaret 
| I woke up in my hammock. I had forgotten why I was there for a moment, looked up, and saw someone taking pictures of the 30-odd hammocks surrounding me. Little did I know that I would be spending the next few days and every waking minute with this blonde photographer.
I sat up and asked if he wanted to go to the beach. I heard his thick German accent and didn't need to ask his origin. We walked around, swam, walked around. He bought us beer all day, we lay in the sun and talked about our biggest fears. We both refused to tell each other our names, so we just called one another Fraulein for the first 24 hours. He and I watched the waves while eating caramel fudge ice cream. We walked along the beach and found a rusty 'ship' washed up on the shore, called this Captain Morgan's abandoned ship, and searched for his hidden treasure.
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Title: Tropical beauty surrounds Costa Rica Type: News Article Date: 2011-10-11 Author: BC Local News
|  Limon is the primary tourist centre in Costa Rica featuring a unique combination of beaches, natural resources and afro-American culture in Cahuíta, Puerto Viejo and Gandoca Manzanillo.
Clear water, coconut palms, great surf and a laid-back Caribbean atmosphere make Puerto Viejo a favourite among travellers.
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Title: El reducto rastafari de Costa Rica Type: News Article Date: 2011-10-09 Author: La Tercera 
|  LA HISTORIA de Puerto Viejo, como la de todo pueblo que emerge como atracción turística, es conocida: una pequeña localidad de pescadores, que un buen día fue descubierta por jóvenes seudo-hippies del primer mundo, quienes enamorados del entorno tropical, se negaron a volver a sus gélidas tierras y se quedaron aquí para cumplir su propio sueño del pibe.
Recommendation: si llegan a Puerto Viejo desde Bocas del Toro, reservar un shuttle |
Title: TMZ star declares South Bay “raddest place ever” Type: News Article Date: 2011-07-28 Author: Easy Reader
|  Hodges opted to travel the world instead of continuing school. He backpacked throughout Europe, surfed in Tahiti, Costa Rica and throughout Central America. “That’s the best education you can get,” he recalls his dad telling him. His favorite spot was Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, where he said he could “dance all night in reggae bars and surf all day in Caribbean water.”
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Title: Costa Rica’s South Caribbean: An Undiscovered Treasure Type: Blog Date: 2011-07-12 Author: Lisa Valencia 
|  In the 1600s pirates combed Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast in search of Indian gold and trading ship’s merchandise. However their greatest find is still undiscovered by many today. Its enchanting, uncrowded beaches, distinctive climate and charming, carefree culture make Costa Rica’s south Caribbean a true treasure yet to be known.
For nature lovers, Costa Rica’s Caribbean holds a treasure trove of possibilities. Not only can you swim, snorkel and dive in the crystal clear blue waters and walk for miles on virtually deserted beaches; you can also hike deep into the jungle, climbing to breathtaking mountain vistas. Among the areas prized attractions, The Jaguar Wild Animal Rescue Center is a real gem. Here you can see and learn about
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Title: 10 resorts for every type of traveler Type: News Article Date: 2011-07-06 Author: CNN Go 
| From hotels situated in billion-year-old landscapes to the snowiest ski resort in the world, these places prove that the resort experience is so much more than lounging by the pool with masses of other sunburned tourists.
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7. Best budget resort: Hotel Banana Azul, Costa Rica
At Hotel Banana Azul, rooms go for as little as US$64 a night but come with balconies, hammocks, views of the ocean, and, in some cases, outdoor baths as well.
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Title: Going Our Way: Costa Rica, mon amour Type: News Article Date: 2011-06-24 Author: Washington Post
|  Puerto Viejo in the Limon province on the Caribbean coast next to Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge has a relaxed Afro-Caribbean vibe, which is typical of the Caribbean coast. A paved road to Puerto Viejo was built only 30 years ago, and the area still remains off the radar for typical tourists, drawing mostly backpackers and surfers.
Recommendation: Go see the turtles nesting in season on the nightime turtle watching tour |
Title: Slothful joys of Costa Rica Type: News Article Date: 2011-04-30 Author: Seattle Times
|  The Caribbean coast of Costa Rica is known for reggae music, Jamaican food and an edgy vibe that occasionally spills over into violence.
To us, it sounded like an adventure to spice things up after a week on the more popular Pacific coast of this Central American country.
In small towns a couple hours south of Puerto Limón, where Columbus docked for 17 days in 1502, my husband, David, and I found reggae music blasting out of bars and the best food we had tasted anywhere in the country.
But edginess? Not at all.
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Title: Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast Type: Blog Date: 2011-02-22 Author: Chris Gray Faust
|  Trip report written by an award winning journalist on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast with entry for Puerto Viejo.
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
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Title: Inside the chocolate factory Type: News Article Date: 2011-02-12 Author: St John Telegram 
|  We pulled down a lonely dirt road, following the crudely lettered handmade signs.
“Chocolate Tour.” Simple as that.
Piqued by recommendations from other tourists and the owners of the lodge where we were staying, we decided to explore an organic cacao plantation just outside Puerto Viejo, on the southeast coast of Costa Rica.
Recommendation: Book a combo chocolate and animal rescue center tour |
Title: Authentic performance of Calypso Type: Blog Date: 2011-01-26 Author: Primaverasound
|  Making the most of the fact that I had been invited to a conference about the future of festivals in this new musical era I travelled from Mexico to Costa Rica to visit some friends in the South Caribbean part of the country
Pepo and Sònia left everything to pursue their dream of opening a small eco-lodge in the Costa Rican paradise. The Kulula Lodge is near Puerto Viejo, a small quaint village which lives on the harvest of cacao and that a few years ago reinvented itself to attract a demanding tourism that was looking for peace in one of the last unspoilt places of the Caribbean.
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Title: Jaguar Rescue Center Type: Video Date: 2011-01-16 Author: Jaguar Rescue Center
| A lovely photo slideshow with animal sounds of the creature residents (and a few humans too) at the Jaguar Rescue Center.
Recommendation: Visit the Jaguar Rescue Center |
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Title: Turistas visitan Puerto Viejo de Limón buscando la “monoterapia" Type: News Article Date: 2011-01-10 Author: Teletica 7 
|  Teletica 7 visits the Jaguar Animal Rescue center in Cocles and interviews the staff and visitors. Lot's of wonderful video of the animals of course! In Spanish.
Teletica 7 visite el Centro Rescate de Animales en Cocles y hablar con los personales y unos visitantes. Mucho video de los animales también!
Recommendation: Visit the Jaguar Rescue Center |
Title: 20 Destinos para Disfrutar el Verano Type: News Article Date: 2010-12-18 Author: Lonely Planet 
|  The South American edition of Lonely Planet Magazine (in Spanish) has profiled the Puerto Viejo area in their recent issue in their article "20 Destination to Enjoy Summer". Many local businesses have been recommended including KOKi Beach, De Paso, Tree House Lodge, Rockin J's and El Numi Restaurant.
Salsa Brava es el nombre de la ola más poderosa de Costa Rica. Surfers de todo el mundo vienen a montarla. Es un clásica ola hawaiana con un tubo que se mantiene abierto y te permite—si sos lo suficientemente bueno o suicicida —tocar el cielo con las manos. Y es esta ola, mundialmente famosa, la que ha catapultado a Puerto Viejo a Talamanca como un paraíso accesible.
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Title: Puerto Viejo Costa Rica Animal Rescue Center Type: Video Date: 2010-11-27 Author: Michael & D'Angelo, TravelCostaRicaNow 
| Hey Everyone! I gotta say, this could be one of our BEST videos to date. We're in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica on the Caribbean side of the country and we're visiting the Jaguar Rescue Center a few minutes from the center of town. We had been wanting to visit the rescue center form some time because we both love the animals, especially the sloths and the monkey's and the margays and the toucans and even the snakes. So, we were like 2 kids in a candy store and we got some GREAT footage. Check it out and I think you'll AGREE. If you're in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica you're not going to want to miss visiting the Jaguar Rescue Center... and why wouldn't you, even your admission price goes to help the animals.
Recommendation: Book a visit to the Jaguar Animal Rescue Center |
Title: Life's a beach with cozy Costa Rica bungalows at bargain rates Type: News Article Date: 2010-11-14 Author: New York Daily News
|  The New York Daily News has written about Puerto Viejo and mentions several local businesses including La Kukula Lodge, Shawanda Lodge, Puerto Viejo Satellite, Gecko Trail Adventures, Jaguar Rescue Cente
In eastern Costa Rica, near the Panama border, a pothole-filled road meanders down the coast. It passes through a beach town named Puerto Viejo de Talamanca and follows the contours of the land between the Gandoca-Manzanillo national forest and the Caribbean Sea.
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Title: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica-COOLest restaurant KOKI BEACH Type: Video Date: 2010-11-10 Author: Michael & D'Angelo, TravelCostaRicaNow
| Hey Everyone! Koki Beach is a restaurant pretty much in the center of Puerto Viejo Costa Rica, which is located on the Caribbean side of the country. Koki Beach is one of those COOL restaurants you just want to hang out in. Great place for conversation, drinks and of course a good meal. Since Puerto Viejo has a huge Jamaican influence, many of the restaurants are pretty much the same as all the others. NOT so at Koki Beach, they don't even play reggae. Anyway, Check OUT the video to see a little more of Koki Beach. |
Title: BEST Hotel Puerto Viejo Costa Rica Banana Azul Type: Video Date: 2010-11-02 Author: Michael & D'Angelo, TravelCostaRicaNow
| Hey Everyone! love, Love, LOVE this hotel in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica which is located on the southern Caribbean side of the country. The hotel's name is Banana Azul and it's just a couple minutes (in a car) north of Puerto Viejo. We're not saying their couldn't be other GREAT places to stay, but everything factored in like price, staff, service, food etc, it's the one we like BEST so far. Check out the VIDEO to see why. ENjoY! |
Title: Viernes de Moda desde el Caribe Type: News Article Date: 2010-10-22 Author: Teletica 7
|  Teletica visits the Puerto Viejo area for their Friday event's feature. They feature Maxi's Restaurant, Kukula Lodge and the Artisan's Market.
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Title: Manzanillo Costa Rica and Maxi's Restaurant Type: Video Date: 2010-10-11 Author: Michael & D'Angelo, TravelCostaRicaNow
| Blog entry and video at Maxi's Restaurant in Manzanillo.
Puerto Viejo is located on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica and has a uniqueness all its own. It doesn't take long to notice (and feel) the Jamaican influence. Surfers, Rasta's, young hippie dudes and older guys who wish they were one of the three, hanging in Puerto Viejo just makes you want to light-up and chill on a hammock at the beach..... with some Marley in the background of course. |
Title: Playa Chiquita, is thought of by many, as the "perfect paradise" Type: Video Date: 2010-09-21 Author: DavidsBeenHere 
| Playa Chiquita, is thought of by many, as the "perfect paradise" because of the overwhelming natural beauty found there. "Chiquita" means small in Spanish, but the natural gifts of this location are BIG! Visitors can snorkel among the beautiful reefs, swim in the calm waters, sunbathe, hike through nature trails, or horseback ride. |
Title: Puerto Viejo Open Pro Type: Video Date: 2010-09-07 Author: Wipe Out Films
| Video footage from the Puerto Viejo Open Pro surf tournament held May 15. Lots of cool surf shots and a rocking soundtrack!
Recommendation: Take surf lessons! |
Title: Costa Rica Flora & Fauna Type: Photo Album Date: 2010-08-03 Author: David Peller Photography
|  Amazing nature photo set from in and around Punta Uva, mostly from the Casa Tres Monos property. Howler monkeys, sloths, birds, butterflies and much more.
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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 |
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