Die Ost-bzw Karibikküste Costa Ricas

Costa Rica is probably one of the countries where one has the shortest distance between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, so you can bathe himself within a few hours in two different oceans, and that's what we did!

Our "base camp" we pitched in hippie village of Puerto Viejo, which will be known to sell for his dealer's Marijuana on the road. In any case, it is warned in the guidebook before them and the aggressive sales methods. Perhaps this is because we just do not look like this at night or do not go away, but we were in the four days we were there offered drugs even once. While it looks at the loose passage of many Bob Marley imitations that this grass could be in the game but they smoke it myself than to sell 😉

Otherwise, the houses of the Caribbean are certainly more colorful than the other coast, but also all a bit of tourism and of course more expensive.

Unfortunately, not oh-so-eco-conscious Costa Rica be garbage problem under control, so that on the one hand leave mainly domestic tourists a lot of trash on the beach and on the other hand, the garbage disposal is not really organized, well, freuts the vultures!

Around Puerto Viejo you will find several beaches which are a real paradise and especially for surfers. Here you go white with black beaches from, but one thing is always the same, the rainforest equal right behind it!

The Jaguar Rescue Center

The road between Cahuita, Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo is full of hostels and bed & breakfasts, mostly run by American expatriates who turned smokes with their huge all-wheel drive cars to make the gravel roads unsafe. Jaguar Rescue Center be included in a visit to the injured animals, maintained and prepared again for their release.

Furthermore, the station also serves as a research center especially for snakes are milked also there to produce antisera. To View a yellow Viper and a rattlesnake that any noise made in Costa Rica, since its rattle because of the high Luftfreuchtigkeit not work.

Unfortunately, the waves were too high bathe properly or to snorkel, but we enjoyed the afternoon on the beach of Punta Uva.

And lo and behold what is buzzing with such a beach walk in the scrub, green iguanas, very nice bright-colored males and females.

On the whole, the West Coast of Costa Rica has us a little like better, but there is a reason why it has been definitely worth it to visit the Caribbean as part of my trip around the world, but more on that in the next article.