Stephan‘s Guidebook
Favourite restaurants
This restaurants offers amazing food all day long and provides many vegan options, Try the home made milkshakes!
Sano Banano Beachside Hotel
This restaurants offers amazing food all day long and provides many vegan options, Try the home made milkshakes!
This is a wonderful restaurant and bar to sit with ocean view. They have an extra vegan menu.
28 personas locales recomiendan
Chico's Playa Bar Restaurante
This is a wonderful restaurant and bar to sit with ocean view. They have an extra vegan menu.
It's a lovely restaurant with live music on many days. They have the best vegan pizza in town.
17 personas locales recomiendan
Orgánico
It's a lovely restaurant with live music on many days. They have the best vegan pizza in town.
This is a cozy lunch time restaurant surrounded by amazing nature. They sell awesome local beer there.
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Butterfly Brewing Co.
Montezuma-Delicias RoadThis is a cozy lunch time restaurant surrounded by amazing nature. They sell awesome local beer there.
In this restaurant you sit in a very stylish garden and the food is super delicious and creative. They have amazing vegan options.
20 personas locales recomiendan
Puggo's
In this restaurant you sit in a very stylish garden and the food is super delicious and creative. They have amazing vegan options.
Chelo cobano
The best bakery in Cóbano. They sell delicious fresh made sandwiches and taped beer.
This is a very cozy restaurant with live music every Wednesday and Saturday from 6:30pm. There is enough place to dance. The staff is super friendly. They also have vegan options.
Salón El Higuerón
This is a very cozy restaurant with live music every Wednesday and Saturday from 6:30pm. There is enough place to dance. The staff is super friendly. They also have vegan options.
This is a nice restaurant at the beach of Montezuma. They have vegan options. Every Saturday from 4:30pm there is live music.
Restaurante Montezuma
This is a nice restaurant at the beach of Montezuma. They have vegan options. Every Saturday from 4:30pm there is live music.
Neighborhoods
You can reach the cozy town of Montezuma within 5 driving minutes. There you find many restaurants, shops, bars, 2 small supermarkets and the beach. When you take a beautiful 30 minutes walk along the beach through beautiful nature, out of the left side of Montezuma, you reach an amazing and wide beach called Playa Grande. When you walk out of the right side of Montezuma you reach the entrance to the Montezuma waterfall. A 20-minutes hike through the jungle leads to this beautiful waterfall where you can jump into the water.
Every Saturday from 10:30am there is the farmers market on the right side of Montezuma right next to the beach. They sell handicrafts, fruits, veggies, and many delicious snacks.
During season nearly every day there is a baby sea turtle release at the beach of Montezuma. It's so adorable!
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Montezuma
You can reach the cozy town of Montezuma within 5 driving minutes. There you find many restaurants, shops, bars, 2 small supermarkets and the beach. When you take a beautiful 30 minutes walk along the beach through beautiful nature, out of the left side of Montezuma, you reach an amazing and wide beach called Playa Grande. When you walk out of the right side of Montezuma you reach the entrance to the Montezuma waterfall. A 20-minutes hike through the jungle leads to this beautiful waterfall where you can jump into the water.
Every Saturday from 10:30am there is the farmers market on the right side of Montezuma right next to the beach. They sell handicrafts, fruits, veggies, and many delicious snacks.
During season nearly every day there is a baby sea turtle release at the beach of Montezuma. It's so adorable!
You can reach Cóbano within 10 driving minutes. This is your place when you need a cash machine, a bank, a post office, a greater selection of supermarkets or a pharmacy.
Every Friday there is the green market next to the Municipality. A good time to be there is around 8am. They sell amazing German sourdough bread there.
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Cobano District
You can reach Cóbano within 10 driving minutes. This is your place when you need a cash machine, a bank, a post office, a greater selection of supermarkets or a pharmacy.
Every Friday there is the green market next to the Municipality. A good time to be there is around 8am. They sell amazing German sourdough bread there.
If you want to have more restaurants, shops and places to party you should visit Santa Teresa. It a 30-minutes drive from Montezuma. The sunsets at the large beach over there are beautiful. Furthermore it's a good place to go or learn surfing.
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Santa Teresa Beach
If you want to have more restaurants, shops and places to party you should visit Santa Teresa. It a 30-minutes drive from Montezuma. The sunsets at the large beach over there are beautiful. Furthermore it's a good place to go or learn surfing.
It’s a beautiful wild and less crowded beach where you can enjoy the sunset.
16 personas locales recomiendan
Manzanillo Beach
It’s a beautiful wild and less crowded beach where you can enjoy the sunset.
In Cabuya there is one of my favourite natural places, the Rio Lajas. It's a sweet water stream that comes out of the Mountains and leads into the ocean. You can stay in the natural pools and enjoy the fresh water or you take an 1,5 hour hike up to the waterfall.
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Cabuya
In Cabuya there is one of my favourite natural places, the Rio Lajas. It's a sweet water stream that comes out of the Mountains and leads into the ocean. You can stay in the natural pools and enjoy the fresh water or you take an 1,5 hour hike up to the waterfall.
Consejos para la ciudad
Cómo moverse
4x4 car is the best option
As long as you stay on the main roads a small SUV is enough but the fun starts off the main roads. There are beautiful ways through the jungle (e.g. there is a beautiful jungle way to Santa Teresa). Also some parts of the main roads can be very bumpy. My recommendation is to rent a 4x4 vehicle to be safe everywhere.
Cómo moverse
Waze is the best navigation app in Costa Rica
Load the app "Waze" before you travel. This app works the best in Costa Rica and it includes traffic updates.
Frases útiles
Pura Vida
Pura Vida can be translated with "pure live" and it describes the lifestyle of Costa Rica. It means to live a peaceful and simple life with a deep appreciation for nature, family and friends.
You hear it everywhere. "Pura Vida" is used as greeting, as good wish or even as the answer of the question "How are you?".
Qué empacar
How to pack for Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a very natural and wild country. For travelling around I suggest to travel light and with a backpack. There are places to wash laundry everywhere. You just need cozy and useful clothes to explore the unique nature of Costa Rica. When you plan to discover Costa Rica during rainy season it is good to bring a rain jacket and dry bag. Also mosquito repellent and a torch is a good idea. In most of the country the temperature is warm but there are some places like Monteverde or up on the volcanos where it's cooler.
Formas de ahorrar
The cheapest way to travel is by bus
When you want to travel around in Costa Rica check the many good connections by bus.
https://www.laterminalcostarica.com
Cómo moverse
The best way from San José to Montezuma
The fastest way to travel from the airport in San José to Montezuma is by ferry. It takes round about 1,5 hours from San José to Puntarenas. There you can take the ferry (5:30am, 9am, 12:00pm, 3pm, 6pm, 8:30pm) to Paquera. From Paquera it's a 45 minutes drive to Montezuma. There is also a bus that goes all the way from San José to Montezuma (via ferry).