Puerto Viejo isn’t for everyone.
If you need your beach vacation to be peppered with air conditioned rooms and restaurants; if you can’t comfortably share your room with the occasional gecko; if you get upset over spotty internet and power outages, then you might be better off visiting somewhere else.
But if you can accept Puerto Viejo for its flaws, it will accept you and yours.
If I were airdropped in front of the Bakery, I wouldn’t feel like I were] in Costa Rica. My first impression of the place was a familiar, welcoming feeling of being in a cozy Portland café.
Starting this June, police in Puerto Viejo, Cocles, Cahuita, Flamingo, Dominical, Nosara, Sámara, Playas del Coco, and Tamarindo will start taking criminal complaints, according to Public Security Ministry spokesman José Vargas.
Costa Rica has a high number of beach drownings for its size. That's due, in part, to the lack of lifeguards and vacationers letting their guard down at the beach, experts say. Here we provide tips for staying safe and a downloadable fact sheet on rip currents.
Costa Rica is known around the world for its picturesque beaches, but there are no laws that require lifeguards on its sandy shores, forcing local communities to scrape together the funds to train and employ their own. Without more resources for beach safety, experts say that preventable drowning deaths will continue.
Jacó needs a moniker. I propose “The Biggest Little City in Costa Rica.”
Really. Jacó’s population is only around 12,000, but the nonstop activity that...
