Osa Peninsula
Traveling to Costa Rica's Drake Bay by Plane, Bus or Car
By Explore Costa Rica Staff
Jun 24, 2008, 15:48

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Traveling to Costa Rica's Drake Bay by Plane, Bus or Car

Getting to Drake Bay by Plane

Drake Bay is located on the Osa Peninsula in the Southern Pacific region of Costa Rica. There are daily flights from San Jose to Drake Bay. Flight time is approximately 45 minutes and all flights depart San Jose only once a day in the morning. Flights leave from the Juan Santamaria International Airport on Sansa Airlines or from the smaller Pavas International Airport where Nature Air Airlines is located. Once in Drake Bay you will take a short taxi ride along the countryside to the small town of Agujitas, where you will board a boat for your trip to your hotel.

Sansa Airlines; call in US 800-225-2272, in San Jose call 2-221-9414 or 2-442-5290 or visit their website at www.flysansa.com.

Nature Air Airlines has scheduled daily flights from the Pavas Airport (about 15 minutes out of San Jose), call in San Jose 2-220-3052, or go to their website at www.NatureAir.com to make your reservations online.

Getting to Drake Bay by Bus

If you want to travel to Drake Bay by bus, take the 5:30 am bus from the Coca-Cola Station in San Jose to Palmar Norte. From Palmar Norte, take a taxi to Sierpe. This will get you to Sierpe by 11 am. You then take a boat to Drake Bay (about an hour's ride down the river), $20 per person. The boats all leave between 11 and 11:30 am for Drake Bay.

Getting to Drake Bay by Car

From San Jose take the Inter-American Highway south to Palmar Norte (about six to seven hours). Turn off in Palmar Norte towards Palmar Sur. After the bridge make a right and then continue on to Sierpe. Then take a boat to Drake Bay (about an hour's ride down the river), $20 per person. The boats all leave between 11 and 11:30 am for Drake Bay.  

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