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Patria
Escudo Nacional de Costa Rica. I made this from rice and coffee and lentils.I will write more here this is just my starting place, the things that stand out the most in my time in Costa Rica. Firstly, Costa Rica is an awesomely beautiful place. Off the beaten path there is still a little of the unexplored in regards to towns, but a plethora of unexplored rainforest.. The pace of life in rural areas is slow and people spend a lot of time socializing with family and friend and in the city most are working very hard to make ends meet. People tend to keep to their own families and can be distrusting of others. I found taxi drivers to be both the best and the worst of the Costa Ricans. In central San Jose and by the beach, many of them are bad. But in smaller towns they are usually very friendly and kind. Costa Rica has a lot of immigrants too. Many are Nicaraguans, and like all people they come in good and bad. Many Costa Ricans see them as untrustworthy and dangerous. But the great majority is hard working and kind. There are also many Colombians, who I have found to be some of the most intensely passionate people. Conversations are
Samara
The beat at here made me rip my leather sandals from dancing. with them always been "full on" in that they speak at a close distance and use a lot of body language. There can be a lot of crime in Costa Rica which is mostly just ever-present an annoyance. Overall, I found Costa Rica to be a majestic place where Latin and Afro-Latin rhythms mirrored the steamy and tropical landscape.
San Jose
I lived for 2 years in Barrio Francisco Peratla, located between the city center and San Pedro. San Jose is a dirty city with lots of trash and homeless children and adults. There is a lot of petty violence. There is really no place you can walk safely at night. During the day it is packed with people crossing from East to West and vendors capitalizing on the pedestrian traffic selling fruits and vegetables, DVD's, necklaces, paintings, hats, t'shirts, belts, etc. Their are beautiful historic buildings and parks too. It is a place where you can really see all of the cities inhabitants. Hardworking lawyers, liberal protesters’, slum dwellers, preppy boys and girls, emo-goths and prostitutes. Honest people and soul-less people. The hardworking and the lazy. To the east is San Pedro, an urban university area, Sabanilla and
Tres Rios. To the north Guadalupe and Tibas, non-descript but plesant centers with often very dangerous surroundings. To the south, Desamparados, an enormous sprawl with everything from slums to nice residential areas. And to the west, Sabana and Escazu. Sabana is an upper-middle class old urban area, similar to parts of San Pedro. And Escazu with a quaint, small town feel but relentless traffic and surrounding areas of upper-class homes and apartments on beautiful mountain roads.
Heredia
Also dirty, but slightly less unpleasant in than San Jose. Heredia is also very busy in the day time and desolate and dangerous at night. The surrounding communites, like San Rafael, Barva, Concepcion and San Isidro (where I lived for a year) are beautiful and quaint. The small town feel is ever-present and the people are less harden by the crime of nearby San Jose. Most people are friendly and there is still the rancho feeling that makes you want a warm dish of chifrijo (black beans, rice, fried pork, pico de gallo and nachos) a cold beer or shot of guaro and good company. It is usually rainy and cold but sometimes its hot and steamy and its always hobbit-ly beautiful. With
bright orchids and vines and rolling coffee fields on the edge of high grazing fields that meet the cloud forest of Braullio Carrillo National Park
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