Puerto Viejo 20-25th September 2011 Jumping off the bus in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, we were hit by a sense of Rastafarian tranquillity. This town is a small Caribbean surf haunt renowned for the Salsa Brava- one of the biggest breaks in Costa Rica and with such a shallow reef it generally results in broken boards and bones! September is calmer on the surfing front though, allowing for the underwater gardens to be explored with maximum visibility. We checked ...

Lob Blog San Jose-Tortuguero 13-19th Sept 2011 Do you know the way to San Jose? Those words by Dionne Warwick will stay etched into our minds forever as it seemed Sena had been reincarnated as a kamikaze bus driver. Nutter. We checked into our hostel called Tranquilla in the Barro Amon area of San Jose, which was clean, tidy and looked well visited given the thickness of the guest book and foreign coins trapped underneath the glass desk top. We decided to check...