Costa Rica Travel Guide 201 | Uneven Sidewalks Travel Blog

When my wife and I moved to Costa Rica we spent days and weeks learning the ins and outs of Costa Rica. We became experts on so many things – local customs, details about buses, cell phone services, places to stay, and more every month! All the travel guides for Costa Rica were too simple and didn’t give me any useful information.

“Once you finally figure out the rules to the game, they change them and you’re back at the beginning, hopefully a little wiser.” -Quote from a lifelong traveler

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Information Overload – Let’s Make This Easier!

After a while I decided to combine my notebooks into some sort of a reference guide so I could quickly find the information I needed. I realized that this information might be useful to anyone who was planning to travel to or live in Costa Rica, or was already here.

If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. I guess those might be “Costa Rica Travel Guide 101.”

This Is The Next Level – Costa Rica Travel Guide 201

Here you’ll find the next level of information about Costa Rica, above the same stale Traveling 101 advice about not walking down shady alleys and not keeping your wallet in your back pocket and keeping your eye on your bags. This is a really useful source of first-hand information that you wouldn’t be able to find without experiencing it – and it’s continually growing. It’s an organized, practical guide to help you fit into the Costa Rican culture, act like a native, and even speak the lingo of the natives.

So, How Is This Helpful to You?

I wanted this website to be a useful guide that others and even I could look back to for the useful things that are difficult to remember unless you use them every day like:

Bus times from San José to Jacó, or from Puerto Viejo to San José
Banks that offer withdrawals in both the local currency, Colónes, and Dollars
The code to send to Movistar or Kolbi if my cell phone runs out of minutes and I need a little emergency credit on it

This is the Costa Rica travel guide website I wish I had both when we started planning for our move and also when we arrived and started finding our way around. It may be hard for you to relate to some things we’ve learned and written here unless you’ve already been in Costa Rica and have come across a specific difficulty or at least have traveled in Latin America before.