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I appreciate this help. I recently moved to Nicaragua and will be using this video for help. Let me know where to get a covid test PCR in Costa Rica to return to Nicaragua. Does the ticabus travel from Bluefields?
@@derekelliott1082 Hi Derek, you are welcome. This link might be helpful for you: ticotimes.net/2021/01/21/where-to-get-a-coronavirus-test-in-costa-rica-2 . Ticabus only travels through Managua and possibly Granada to our knowledge. There is a bus from Bluefields to Managua, we aren't sure where it goes from though in Managua.
Thanks for sharing so much helpful information... Glad you made it safely and without incident. Loved that you were able to squeeze in another important Nicaraguan site prior to leaving us. Can not wait for your vid on El Castillo and I'm sure we're in for a treat as that place has great historical significance. Best wishes and hope you can visit us soon 🔵⚪🔵
We had to visit El Castillo! It packs in soo much history for such a little village! We guarantee this will be an interesting video! P.S. We are actually considering visiting your home town of Miami shortly because we are struggling to get vaccinated here in Costa Rica. We would love to meet you if possible! Stay tuned!
Hey guys! Just came across your channel through a post in the comments section on an old Endless Adventure vlog. We'll be following along on your future travels :) Cheers from Pennsylvania!
Goodness!! I felt such stress watching your crossing!! I don’t know If I would make it with so many “to do’s”. Wow! Thankfully we can watch your videos! Take us on the next Adventure! ❤️~Cara
🤣🤣 Yes there were a number of hoops to jump through here! We always find border crossings stressful and luckily everything went smoothly on the day. What we didn't share was that the internet was down in our last hotel for 4 days and so we struggled to do the online forms in time. Now that was stressful!
Another great video guys. I didn't know that the borders were open already. Thanks for sharing. I love the boat ride. It's always sad leaving a country. We feel that way as well However, it is always nice and exciting to visit a new country. Can't wait to see your Costa Rica videos. We haven't visited but plan to in the future.
Thanks Gladys and Kenny! Yes, as far as we know, all Central American borders are open. Costa Rica has been open since the start of the year for air travel and the land borders opened in April. I'm sure you would really enjoy Costa Rica, it is a beautiful country!
This is such a brilliant video! Wow, so much information provided in such an excellent way... I think this is now my gold standard for border crossing videos! 🏆👏 I really liked the point made at 4:50 and will remember to start including this as well! Back to the video itself! 😃 This must have been such a bittersweet day, finally leaving after 18 amazing months in Nicaragua. It's pretty cool that you took a boat for part of the journey! 😃 Such a bummer you had to delete your footage of the border but I loved your description and the artistic impression 😃🤣 Where there money changers at the border or had you bought some new currency whilst still in Nicaragua? This was such a helpful and enjoyable video, thank you for sharing your experience! ~ Mandy
Thank you for such great feedback Mandy! Yes it was a really bittersweet day after our wonderful time in Nicaragua. There were a lot of tears in the lead up to today, however in the moment we were just focused on getting through the border without any issues. Great point about the money exchangers, we need to pop that in next time! We didn't see any money exchangers on the Nicaragua side, but we exchanged US dollars for Costa Rica Colones at the bus stop on the Costa Rica side.
@@BucketListTravellers Thank you for the info about changing money on the Costa Rican side. We travelled in Central America in 1997, so it's fascinating to see how much has changed and how much has stayed the same! 😃😁 ~ Mandy
This is SO informative! We’d definitely refer back to this video whenever we might find ourselves planning to cross the border ourselves! Beautiful sights all throughout this video as well! Keep going guys!
Very good video! I’m glad you guys made it safe to CR. Please video your journey from the border of CR to whatever your first destination is, that would be awesome. Thank you & stay safe!
Thats a shame, where did you visit in Nicaragua? We appreciate that Nicaragua is not for everyone. Costa Rica is certainly a more comfortable experience from what we have experienced so far. That said, we really enjoyed the rustic Nicaragua experience as well!
@@BucketListTravellers San Juan Del Sur and Ometepe Island, what I found was how cheap it was in comparison to CR. I originally moved from Spain and now im buying a house on Lake Arenal. Take a visit to Nuevo Arenal, Tilaran and La Fortuna.
@@ChrisAIGuy Yes, it is certainly much cheaper in Nicaragua compared to Costa Rica! A house on Lake Arenal sounds awesome! We've visited La Fortuna, but cut straight through to Monteverde afterwards. Such a beautiful part of Costa Rica!
It's amazing to see how much value you add to travelers through your videos! Are you guys still in Costa Rica? So curious to see more footage from there!!
Hey Ste and Rach, thank you! We aim to give value in all our vlogs. We don't have the personalities to have the vlog all about us anyway!🤣🤣 Yes we are still in Costa Rica and have plenty to share!
Yes, both Nicaragua and Costa Rica are very safe to travel through. We have travelled by public bus in both countries and have felt very safe. The only question right now would be covid safety. You must wear masks on all public transport here in Costa Rica, however it is more hit and miss in Nicaragua.
Glad to hear you're enjoying Pura Vida in Costa Rica. It was the first Central American country I considered before I heard about Nicaragua. I will probably try out CR, Nicaragua, Panama, and maybe Equador before deciding where to settle. But it looks like you aren't planning to settle for a while, so I look forward to hearing about your CR adventure, and where you go after that.
Oh guys love all the stuff in Central America we’re heading over the pond to South America next Monday probably start in Peru what ever is easiest to gain entry with COVID have you found centre America easy? We are fully vaccinated
Hey guys, you should be fine in most places. For Costa Rica, you just need to fill in that online health pass and you are done. Nicaragua is a bit trickier as you need a negative PCR test to enter AND leave via plane. Not sure about other Central American countries at this time. If you want to visit both Costa Rica and Nicaragua, we recommend you fly in and out of Costa Rica (Liberia is closest to Nicaragua) and cross the land border into Nicaragua. That is the easist approach and many people are doing this way.
Gracias por sus amables palabras. Sí, la pandemia todavía continúa aquí en Costa Rica y estamos haciendo un gran esfuerzo para vacunarnos, pero sin mucha suerte.
@@BucketListTravellers vacunan en algunos lugares solo con el pasaporte miren noticias ahi dicen los puntos mas que todo de la capital por si quieren vacunarse
have your backpacks ever been weighted at the airports during your travels? I'm worried that 7 kg limit for cabin luggage is really small and can't take much gear if travelling only with a backpack, how do you do it?
Hey Robert, funnily enough we haven't flown since early January 2020! That said, our bags were both under 7kg and one of our tricks is to wear a LOT of clothes if we breach that limit! It is really liberating to only fly with 7kg of luggage. We still managed to have 4-5 shirts, undies, socks, 2 pairs of shorts. We have since bought 2 laptops, so our next flight is going to be interesting...
Hello, both of you, thank you for the very good information in your video. i have a question. when i fly from madrid to costa rica. i have read that a foreigner is asked for the exit ticket within the 90 days. I would get a copy from a friend from costa rica where it says on the bus ticket that I will travel on to Nicaragua by bus. That should be enough to prove that I am travelling on.LG Andy
Thanks for your question. We hear it can come down to who processes your application, however you should be fine as long as you have a bus ticket to show like Nica or Tica bus.
@@BucketListTravellers thank you very much for the quick answer i was only interested in checking in to the plane with iberia as i don't need a return ticket the onward bus ticket should be ok from Nica/Tica
Hey Jango, we are currently in San Jose. Good question! No we aren't vaccinated yet and it is playing heavily on our minds. We have tried in multiple places here to get vaccinated, but it is not possible as we are tourists. We need to be vaccinated to get back to Australia as well, so we are working out what we can do at the moment. Have you been vaccinated yet?
@@BucketListTravellers No, i haven't recieved the vaccine either. I read that Panama's goverment will vaccinate the tourists that hasn't recieved the vaccine yet, that process will begin on October 1st, you guys should look up that info, maybe both of you could receive the vaccine there.
@@heyner_rivera.14 Thanks Jango. That was going to be our plan, however Panama have all these conditions with the vaccinations. You have to stay in prescribed hotels, which are all really expensive and that isn't feasible for us. Sadly we may have to give Panama a miss now.
Hi Carlos, that has been our experience so far. Luckily we have found accommodation options that are in a similar budget to that in Nicaragua. We'll explain more about this in next week's video!
Creo que en las fronteras por ambos lados de Costa Rica son las más costosas de centroamérica porque siempre que pagar impuesto para salir y siempre las filas todos más difícil si es por peña blanca la frontera de Nicaragua son súper rapidísimas para pasarlas para allá aquí al lado costarricense que hacer un filón a cómo cobran así viene antes de ser la frontera de ellos una frontera rápidas porque cobran una cantidad de dinero y son tan mala la el servicio la atención es demasiada mala
Sí, estábamos preparados para una experiencia difícil en las Peñas blancas y nos alegramos de probar la ruta de San Pancho. Nos alegramos de haberlo hecho, ¡porque fue muy fácil!
No ahorita no estoy viviendo en mi país ojalá se esté sigan viniendo a nuestro país son bienvenidos de verdad me siento muy feliz por que hayan tenido es amabilidad de grabar tantos lugares tan bonitos en nuestro país que yo no los conocía y siendo nicaragüense no los conocía más bien este muchas gracias por tener la oportunidad de conocer mi país aunque sea en video ojalá sigan viniendo y sigan esté haciendo videos y ojalás algún día se vengan a vivir a nuestro país qué es un país muy bonito
Hi Eric. At the time we needed to do a covid PCR test, which meant heading to Managua and waiting around all day at the only testing facility in the country. It was also US$150 each. So rather than all this hassle, we thought it was time to move on. We had a good run at 18 months in Nicaragua!
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I appreciate this help. I recently moved to Nicaragua and will be using this video for help. Let me know where to get a covid test PCR in Costa Rica to return to Nicaragua. Does the ticabus travel from Bluefields?
@@derekelliott1082 Hi Derek, you are welcome. This link might be helpful for you: ticotimes.net/2021/01/21/where-to-get-a-coronavirus-test-in-costa-rica-2 . Ticabus only travels through Managua and possibly Granada to our knowledge. There is a bus from Bluefields to Managua, we aren't sure where it goes from though in Managua.
So good when you get spouse.
When you over 60 and lonely
Every day gray and dark...
Thanks for your smiles.
We are glad that we were able to brighten up your day Nikolai, thanks for watching,
Love Costa Rica and the rain forest. This was a really cool video! Thanks
So glad to hear you enjoyed it! Yes Costa Rica is amazing!
Thanks for sharing so much helpful information... Glad you made it safely and without incident. Loved that you were able to squeeze in another important Nicaraguan site prior to leaving us. Can not wait for your vid on El Castillo and I'm sure we're in for a treat as that place has great historical significance.
Best wishes and hope you can visit us soon 🔵⚪🔵
We had to visit El Castillo! It packs in soo much history for such a little village! We guarantee this will be an interesting video! P.S. We are actually considering visiting your home town of Miami shortly because we are struggling to get vaccinated here in Costa Rica. We would love to meet you if possible! Stay tuned!
awww..thank you for all the love and great quality videos about Nicaragua and your experience!! Gonna miss them and wish you all the best!!
Thanks so much Melissa!🤗
another very informative video, thanks guys and happy travels!
Thanks for watching Robert!
Hey guys! Just came across your channel through a post in the comments section on an old Endless Adventure vlog. We'll be following along on your future travels :) Cheers from Pennsylvania!
Awesome! Welcome to our channel!!🤗🤗
Gosh you guys are so lucky to be able to travel😍 it's such a dream from us in down under lol..
Hey Nick and Helmi! We do count our blessings every day. We hope you are keeping sane back in Aus and hope that Oz opens up again soon.
Goodness!! I felt such stress watching your crossing!! I don’t know If I would make it with so many “to do’s”. Wow! Thankfully we can watch your videos! Take us on the next Adventure! ❤️~Cara
🤣🤣 Yes there were a number of hoops to jump through here! We always find border crossings stressful and luckily everything went smoothly on the day. What we didn't share was that the internet was down in our last hotel for 4 days and so we struggled to do the online forms in time. Now that was stressful!
@@BucketListTravellers OK now that's getting really crazy ha ha ha!! So happy it's all behind you!!!!
you have worked very hard, amazing content
Hi JR, thanks so much for your feedback, we really appreciate it! Yes a lot of work goes into these videos and it is our labour of love!
Hi BLT 🙂, glad to hear that everything went well. Safe travels and enjoy your adventures!. Nicaragua misses you 🇳🇮!!
Thanks Henry!
@@BucketListTravellers Hasta la vista dear BLT !!
Thanks for the tour safe travel.
You're welcome and thank you!😃
Another great video guys. I didn't know that the borders were open already. Thanks for sharing. I love the boat ride. It's always sad leaving a country. We feel that way as well However, it is always nice and exciting to visit a new country. Can't wait to see your Costa Rica videos. We haven't visited but plan to in the future.
Thanks Gladys and Kenny! Yes, as far as we know, all Central American borders are open. Costa Rica has been open since the start of the year for air travel and the land borders opened in April. I'm sure you would really enjoy Costa Rica, it is a beautiful country!
I cant wait to get to Costa Rica and live the Pura Vida life lol!
Pura vida permeates everything here, it is really impressive!
Ahhhh you left Nicaragua! God speed on your journey and we’ll be sure to follow you.
Thanks Michael! Yes we are in Costa Rica now and enjoying the Pura Vida life!
This so interesting thanks for sharing
Glad you found it interesting! Thanks for watching!
Nicaragua les espera de nuevo
¡Gracias Mery!
This is such a brilliant video! Wow, so much information provided in such an excellent way... I think this is now my gold standard for border crossing videos! 🏆👏 I really liked the point made at 4:50 and will remember to start including this as well!
Back to the video itself! 😃 This must have been such a bittersweet day, finally leaving after 18 amazing months in Nicaragua.
It's pretty cool that you took a boat for part of the journey! 😃 Such a bummer you had to delete your footage of the border but I loved your description and the artistic impression 😃🤣
Where there money changers at the border or had you bought some new currency whilst still in Nicaragua?
This was such a helpful and enjoyable video, thank you for sharing your experience! ~ Mandy
Thank you for such great feedback Mandy! Yes it was a really bittersweet day after our wonderful time in Nicaragua. There were a lot of tears in the lead up to today, however in the moment we were just focused on getting through the border without any issues. Great point about the money exchangers, we need to pop that in next time! We didn't see any money exchangers on the Nicaragua side, but we exchanged US dollars for Costa Rica Colones at the bus stop on the Costa Rica side.
@@BucketListTravellers Thank you for the info about changing money on the Costa Rican side. We travelled in Central America in 1997, so it's fascinating to see how much has changed and how much has stayed the same! 😃😁 ~ Mandy
we hope to go some day soon
We hope you can make it there soon too, you will love it!
This is SO informative! We’d definitely refer back to this video whenever we might find ourselves planning to cross the border ourselves! Beautiful sights all throughout this video as well! Keep going guys!
Thanks so much for the encouragement Stephen & Andie, that means a lot!!🤗🤗
Nice travel godspeed 🙏 enjoy Costa Rica Jay and John 🤗🙂🙂 thanks for sharing this great video is awesome 👌👏😀
Thank you for your well wishes Paul! Glad you enjoyed this video!
Very good video! I’m glad you guys made it safe to CR. Please video your journey from the border of CR to whatever your first destination is, that would be awesome. Thank you & stay safe!
Glad you enjoyed it and we certainly have footage from our first destination in CR! Thanks and we hope you stay safe too SC1234!😁
Costa Rica is so much better, I’ve been to Nicaragua only once in April for 2 weeks and it gave me an uneasy feeling
Thats a shame, where did you visit in Nicaragua? We appreciate that Nicaragua is not for everyone. Costa Rica is certainly a more comfortable experience from what we have experienced so far. That said, we really enjoyed the rustic Nicaragua experience as well!
@@BucketListTravellers San Juan Del Sur and Ometepe Island, what I found was how cheap it was in comparison to CR. I originally moved from Spain and now im buying a house on Lake Arenal. Take a visit to Nuevo Arenal, Tilaran and La Fortuna.
@@ChrisAIGuy Yes, it is certainly much cheaper in Nicaragua compared to Costa Rica! A house on Lake Arenal sounds awesome! We've visited La Fortuna, but cut straight through to Monteverde afterwards. Such a beautiful part of Costa Rica!
It's amazing to see how much value you add to travelers through your videos! Are you guys still in Costa Rica? So curious to see more footage from there!!
Hey Ste and Rach, thank you! We aim to give value in all our vlogs. We don't have the personalities to have the vlog all about us anyway!🤣🤣 Yes we are still in Costa Rica and have plenty to share!
Qué rico están celebrando ellas con una doñita
¡Gracias por ver Daniel!
Good info!! Is that part of Central America safe to travel??
Yes, both Nicaragua and Costa Rica are very safe to travel through. We have travelled by public bus in both countries and have felt very safe. The only question right now would be covid safety. You must wear masks on all public transport here in Costa Rica, however it is more hit and miss in Nicaragua.
Glad to hear you're enjoying Pura Vida in Costa Rica. It was the first Central American country I considered before I heard about Nicaragua. I will probably try out CR, Nicaragua, Panama, and maybe Equador before deciding where to settle. But it looks like you aren't planning to settle for a while, so I look forward to hearing about your CR adventure, and where you go after that.
Hey Bonnie, great idea to try out each place before you settle. All the best with it and we would love to hear how you found each location!
Oh guys love all the stuff in Central America we’re heading over the pond to South America next Monday probably start in Peru what ever is easiest to gain entry with COVID have you found centre America easy? We are fully vaccinated
Hey guys, you should be fine in most places. For Costa Rica, you just need to fill in that online health pass and you are done. Nicaragua is a bit trickier as you need a negative PCR test to enter AND leave via plane. Not sure about other Central American countries at this time. If you want to visit both Costa Rica and Nicaragua, we recommend you fly in and out of Costa Rica (Liberia is closest to Nicaragua) and cross the land border into Nicaragua. That is the easist approach and many people are doing this way.
Thank you for sharing this information. Am I correct in guessing that the bus and boat rides in Nicaragua do not have bathrooms on board?
You would be correct! It is handy to know where your toilet stops are and make sure you bring a roll of toilet paper with you!
Explican muy bien todo me imagino que ya continuaron su viaje por el atraso de la pandemia de costa rica para donde irian
Gracias por sus amables palabras. Sí, la pandemia todavía continúa aquí en Costa Rica y estamos haciendo un gran esfuerzo para vacunarnos, pero sin mucha suerte.
@@BucketListTravellers vacunan en algunos lugares solo con el pasaporte miren noticias ahi dicen los puntos mas que todo de la capital por si quieren vacunarse
@@franc6767 Gracias. ¡Seguiremos intentándolo!
have your backpacks ever been weighted at the airports during your travels? I'm worried that 7 kg limit for cabin luggage is really small and can't take much gear if travelling only with a backpack, how do you do it?
Hey Robert, funnily enough we haven't flown since early January 2020! That said, our bags were both under 7kg and one of our tricks is to wear a LOT of clothes if we breach that limit! It is really liberating to only fly with 7kg of luggage. We still managed to have 4-5 shirts, undies, socks, 2 pairs of shorts. We have since bought 2 laptops, so our next flight is going to be interesting...
Hey guys 👋
Hi!
Hello, both of you, thank you for the very good information in your video. i have a question. when i fly from madrid to costa rica. i have read that a foreigner is asked for the exit ticket within the 90 days. I would get a copy from a friend from costa rica where it says on the bus ticket that I will travel on to Nicaragua by bus. That should be enough to prove that I am travelling on.LG Andy
Thanks for your question. We hear it can come down to who processes your application, however you should be fine as long as you have a bus ticket to show like Nica or Tica bus.
@@BucketListTravellers thank you very much for the quick answer i was only interested in checking in to the plane with iberia as i don't need a return ticket the onward bus ticket should be ok from Nica/Tica
Hey guys, where are you?
Have you already had your vaccines?
Hey Jango, we are currently in San Jose. Good question! No we aren't vaccinated yet and it is playing heavily on our minds. We have tried in multiple places here to get vaccinated, but it is not possible as we are tourists. We need to be vaccinated to get back to Australia as well, so we are working out what we can do at the moment. Have you been vaccinated yet?
@@BucketListTravellers
No, i haven't recieved the vaccine either.
I read that Panama's goverment will vaccinate the tourists that hasn't recieved the vaccine yet, that process will begin on October 1st, you guys should look up that info, maybe both of you could receive the vaccine there.
@@heyner_rivera.14 Thanks Jango. That was going to be our plan, however Panama have all these conditions with the vaccinations. You have to stay in prescribed hotels, which are all really expensive and that isn't feasible for us. Sadly we may have to give Panama a miss now.
I was told it's very expensive to stay in Costa Rica.... since there are lots of American citizens retired there...
Hi Carlos, that has been our experience so far. Luckily we have found accommodation options that are in a similar budget to that in Nicaragua. We'll explain more about this in next week's video!
Creo que en las fronteras por ambos lados de Costa Rica son las más costosas de centroamérica porque siempre que pagar impuesto para salir y siempre las filas todos más difícil si es por peña blanca la frontera de Nicaragua son súper rapidísimas para pasarlas para allá aquí al lado costarricense que hacer un filón a cómo cobran así viene antes de ser la frontera de ellos una frontera rápidas porque cobran una cantidad de dinero y son tan mala la el servicio la atención es demasiada mala
Sí, estábamos preparados para una experiencia difícil en las Peñas blancas y nos alegramos de probar la ruta de San Pancho. Nos alegramos de haberlo hecho, ¡porque fue muy fácil!
No ahorita no estoy viviendo en mi país ojalá se esté sigan viniendo a nuestro país son bienvenidos de verdad me siento muy feliz por que hayan tenido es amabilidad de grabar tantos lugares tan bonitos en nuestro país que yo no los conocía y siendo nicaragüense no los conocía más bien este muchas gracias por tener la oportunidad de conocer mi país aunque sea en video ojalá sigan viniendo y sigan esté haciendo videos y ojalás algún día se vengan a vivir a nuestro país qué es un país muy bonito
Ok but why? I mean you just could cross and come right back righ
Hi Eric. At the time we needed to do a covid PCR test, which meant heading to Managua and waiting around all day at the only testing facility in the country. It was also US$150 each. So rather than all this hassle, we thought it was time to move on. We had a good run at 18 months in Nicaragua!