Getting to Nosara

This page is an overview of how to get to Nosara, Costa Rica. First, however, you need to get to Costa Rica. You are most likely going to fly, and will be flying to San Jose, or Liberia. There are a number of airlines that fly to San Jose, Delta, American, Taca, Martin Air, and Spirit Air. You are a bit more limitied flying into Liberia, and will most likely be flying Delta or American. I personally like to fly Martin Air and Taca, as the staff is super nice and the plans are new. You can find flights on all the travel sites, but I use Steve Maley from Worldwide Adventures. His email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tell him that I sent you and he will hook it up. He is not always the cheapest, but the service more than makes up for it.

Flying to Nosara from San Jose:

Once you are in Costa Rica, you will need to get to Nosara. This is usually a bit more fun. If you fly into SanJo, you can fly Sansa or NatureAir directly to Nosara. The flights run about 80 bucks, but it may be a bit cheaper in the off season. One thing of note is that NatureAir does not fly out of the international airport where you will fly into SanJo. NatureAir flys out of an airport about 45 minutes away. That can really screw up your plans if you only have 1 hour between flights. NatureAir flies twin prop planes with big windows which is a bonus, but they fly in the afternoon, and the weather, especially during the rainy season, is sometimes not flying weather so to speak at their 3PM flight time. Sansa flies into Nosara around 9AM, on a single prop plane. The flight is less than an hour, and beautiful, I am always scoping points on the coast... one day I gonna get a boat!

Driving to Nosara from San Jose (and Liberia):

If you aren't flying, your driving. From SanJo the drive to Nosara is in the neighborhood of 5 hours, plus or minus a hour. It is very easy to get stuck behind a few trucks and spend an hour doing 20km. I get a few emails a week about driving here, so I done hooked it up for ya'll! What follows is directions with mileage and pictures of every turn...

Coming from Liberia:

If you are coming from Liberia, it is super easy. You will hang a right out of the airport and go 60km until you get to Nicoya. You will hang a right towards Nicoya and Samara, and then follow the directions below from Nicoya.

From San Jose Airport:

Interational Airport in San Jose... You will need to get on Calle 1 towards San Ramon. Follow the signs it is pretty easy.

You will stay on Calle 1 for 124km (78 miles) until you get to the signs below. You will hang a left towards the Puente.

You will go over the Taiwan bridge until the road comes to a T which is the picture below. This leg is 48km (30miles) Hang a Right at the T towards Nicoya and Nosara.

The next main intersection you will come to will be the pic below. It is 13km (8 miles). You will hang a left at the flashing light.

You then follow that road right through Nicoya. On the left about a km after the turn there is a gas station on the left and a great little tico lunch/breakfast stop, super cheap and good. Follow this road until you come to another T, and are looking at the store below. 13 km (8 miles). Hang a Right.

Follow this road for 19km (12 miles) until you pass the gas station on the left. This is your last stop for good gas and I recommend filling up (they only take cash, about 5 bucks a gallon). About 100m after the station you will hang a right on where on a dirt road. There are signs to Nosara.

At this point you should slow down and start paying attention. There are many places where the roads are washed out, or very narrow one way bridges are around blind corners. About every third drive I seen someone crashed. Follow this road for 8 km (5 miles), it seems like so much longer, until you come to another T shown below, and hang a right.

You are now only 12km from Nosara! Keep driving until you see the sign below... At this sign you are less than a km from my office, and the beach, drop by and say hola...