Uvita in Costa Rica

So – I figured – since we are leaving Uvita now, I really should show you some pictures of this neck of the woods. Uvita is located inPuntarenas, in the southers pacific zone of Costa Rica, along highway 34. It is about two hours south of Jaco - a pretty famous tourist town in the country, and about 3 hours from the capital city San Jose.

It is – unfortunately – not much to speak of! It is a stretch of highway where there suddenly are some stores and some houses and some restaurants – but no real center of town and everything is pretty spread out. So this is not a typical tourist town – which is great if that is what you are looking for. It was definitely what we were looking for – we always try to stay outside the most touristy places if we can avoid them – to see how real people live. 

And that was what we got here, without a doubt (and if we deduct our luxury mansion with pool in the hillside – which is definitely NOT how real people in Uvita live LOL)! 

The good thing is – this town is near national parks, surfing, swimming, water falls, zip lining, horse back riding and lots of other goodies in the area – and the prices of homes at www.homeaway.com for the area are NOT bad! So you get the stuff in the area, but live a lot cheaper – I gotta say I like that a lot! 

This is the house we rented: http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p384059

So if you are going to Costa Rica and wonder where to stay and consider Uvita, I say, “why not” – it is not any worse than any other place, and I kinda liked the fact that it was a dusty pre-touristy town where locals just walk along the highway and sell fish by the road.