So you’re coming to Costa Rica – either for a vacation, or (get back Jack) to MOVE here.
You want to know about the sun and the bugs.
Well, I’m here to tell you – the sun is pretty potent in Costa Rica.
We are only 10 degrees North of the Equator, after all, my friends!
You know what that means. The sun will be more intense here in Costa Rica,
no matter what you are used to in the States.
Have you heard of Tamarindo? It’s in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, the west coast / Pacific Ocean. We were there last week for an awesome little “vacation”! We had an opportunity to pet sit for friends in exchange for a stay at their beautiful home – right in the heart of this quaint little beach town. Even though we aren’t super fit or tan and didn’t walk around with surf boards everywhere – we still fit in – because pretty much the whole town is tourists. Everyone speaks English. Everyone takes the American dollar. Playa Tamarindo (the beach) is known for surfing, and the town itself is sprinkled with good restaurants and lots of touristy shops. We traveled there by bus, which worked out great.
Last week we traveled from Grecia to Tamarindo by bus. We heard from our friends about this direct bus from San Jose to Tamarindo called “Empresa Alfaro“.
Empresa’s station in San Jose is in the Coca Cola area, just one block from the Grecia Bus Station:
To Tamarindo there are two departure times: 11:30 which we took, that goes through Liberia first, and 3:30 with goes “straight” to Tamarindo. We wanted to get there as early in the day as possible, so we took the 11:30 (note: these prices are out of date):
