Surfing in Beautiful Costa Rica
Is surfing your “sport of choice” and you are thinking about taking a nice surf trip to Costa Rica and wondering about the roads? Well, here’s the scoop!First off, your regular driver’s license is legal—for ninety days. If you fall so in love with the surf and the culture that you decide to forget everything and stay—your license will be no good after ninety days has passed the entry date stamped on your passport. If you are like many of the dudes who go to there for a costa rica surf vacation this is a real possibility. It is becoming a must stop on many surf tour iteneries and it is also becoming a truly leading yoga retreat as well. Anyone will tell you, who is familiar with this small nation, to never leave anything valuable in your car, in plain site or otherwise. This is far truer in San Jose than almost anywhere else. It is rumored that people like to watch tourists load up their trunks at the airport. If they seem to have a lot of cool stuff, thieves can follow them to the hotel and wait for them to go inside and check in. Well, you can guess what happens then. The violent crime rate in Costa Rica is relatively low, but the “sticky finger” crime rate is conversely high. if you are there for a surf vacation, this also means not leaving your surfboard unattended at the beach.
If you decide to drive a car in Costa Rica, you will probably end up driving in San Jose. Keep in mind that street signs are often—well—not there. Many of the roads are one-way, and although on some you can see the painted white arrow pointing which way the traffic flows, on many streets the arrow has long since faded away. If you want to learn to surf in costa rica there are also various surf schools and camp as well as resort areas for your vacation. The city is laid out on a straightforward east-west, north-south grid. The Calles (streets) run north-south, and the avenidas run east-west. Trouble is, without street signs, it’s still easy to get turned around or lost.
