Montezuma

Introducing Montezuma

Up until the late 1990s a traffic jam in Montezuma was getting off your bike to shoo some cows off the road, a tourist was someone who left after only a month, a night out was rolling a spliff on the beach instead of in your hammock, a good time was – OK, you get the idea. Montezuma was one of the original ‘destinations’ in Costa Rica, and its remote location and proximity to Costa Rica’s first nature reserve, Cabo Blanco, attracted hippies, artists and dreamers alike. You had to work to get here, and no one had plans to leave quickly.

Montezuma is still a charming village, and foreign travelers continue to be drawn here by the laid-back atmosphere, cheap hotels, sprawling beaches and, yes, the kind bud. But just keep in mind that a good number of the ‘hippie travelers’ in town are returning to NYC in a week to work in an investment bank, and the expensive hotels and raging bars are a vast departure from the beachside camping and ‘free-love’ atmosphere that once made this place unique.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009