Costa Rica 2023

My first daylight drive through Costa Rica! 🤗❤️

I always find it very exciting to write 📝 down my first impressions when I travel through a country for the first time.

So the first thing I noticed here in Costa Rica were the police officers 👮 on their fancy bikes 🚲🚲. Some also have brand new motocross machines 🏍️. Very modern...

In general, it's tidy here, there's hardly any trash on the side of the road and the shuttle buses have internet. That's right - I'm on a "shuttle bus" 🚌.

These are a kind of collective taxis like Moia in Hamburg. They connect interesting places 🌋 and hotels 🏨 and can be booked online; there are several providers. So that's a bit more expensive 💰 than public busses but way cheaper than a rental car 🚗. Up to 9 people fit in, we were 5.

There is quite a lot of traffic in San José, but outside of it, it gets better. The city is full of flat, colorful houses 🏩🏩🏩.
The condition of the roads is quite good and in the city you drive up and down hills like in San Francisco.

In the countryside for sure it is even more hilly ⛰️, there are beautiful mountain peaks everywhere and of course everything is lush green, tropical.
That's why, like so often in the tropics, the city has extremely high curbs - that's shit for loading cars... and there are huge sewage ditches along the streets outside the city.

Yeah well, and as usual in Central America everything is air-conditioned...

One thing really struck me: I saw a lot of birds of prey on my way - in real packs 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅, how unusual. Later on I found out these are vultures and it’s totally normal for them to look for food in packs - they even have different roles in the pack…

So these are my first impressions, I'm excited to see what else will happen in the next three weeks.Read more