Porto Viejo

San José is in the center of the country but the two coast are not far away.
My first weekend in Costa Rica I spent at this beach in Porto Viejo at the Caribbean Sea. It's very humid but also very, very beatiful. The rainforest goes right up to the beach.

With a few other exchange students and "ticos" (that's what the people from Costa Rica call themselves) we stayed in a small hostel. The hostel owner said to us that would we get dinner for free, if we sang some karaoke in his bar... this is what we got! It's fresh fish with hot banana chips - something very Caribbean and very tasty.

Because it is so humid, it normally rains a lot here, but we were lucky and had a lot of sunshine.

This is one of the dogs that live on the beach. Because it is so hot they dig holes to lay on cooler sand.