Friday, November 2, 2012

Playas del Coco

This weekend I headed to the north of Costa Rica to a beach on the Pacific. We stayed there with some locals which made it a lot easier to get around and see less turistic places.



The north-west of Costa Rica, the region of Guanacaste, has the most distict rainy and dry seasons in the country. Here they experience nealy six months of drought. During this time the landscape turns compleatly yellow-brownish with many cactus. However during the rainy season everything is very green. We were there just at the beginn of the dry season so everything was still very green.


This little beach only the locals know. We were there all by ourselves. The beach ist called "Playa del calzón de los pobres" with means something like "underpants of the poor"... however noone could tell us why.


Playa de Ocotal with black sand


Sunset at Playa del Coco


Our little campfire at the beach


The next day they took us to one of the big condominiums here. Condominiums are very posh housings with private pools and everything. Most of the flats are owned by rich North Americans who only spend there holidays here. Luckily some of frinds of the people we stayed with own a flat here and so we could enter with them and spend a nice day at the luxury pools.



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