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MSP anuncia fortalecimiento de la labor policial en puntos estratégicos de Costa Rica

CR Informativa | redaccion@crinformativa.com San José, 29 de mayo de 2024 — Un grupo de 102 estudiantes formados en la Academia Nacional de Policía (ANP) del Ministerio de Seguridad Pública comenzará su práctica policial supervisada en puntos estratégicos del país. A continuación, los detalles: Curso de Gestión de la Seguridad Pública Estos estudiantes, 75 hombres y 27 mujeres, completaron el…

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Tourists narrowly avoid waterfall surge: ‘We came very close to death!’-A group of tourists in Parrita, Costa Rica, had a terrifying brush with death when a flash flood at a scenic waterfall caught them off guard. In a heart-stopping video captured by Graham Shelton, the tourists can be seen scrambling for safety as the water...

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Autumn's Costa Rica Diaries #3

“To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” - Emilia Wickstead

A sand dollar I found on Playa Bandera, taken at the start of sunset.

All of the places I had visited in Costa Rica were phenomenal, and the photos truly do not do the scenery justice. Nonetheless, there was one specific place that stood out to me throughout the whole trip. On July 13th, we traveled to Parrita to the turtle nursery, which was right next to Playa Bandera beach. Before having fun at the beach, I had the opportunity to learn about how much labor goes into the turtle nursery. Getting to watch a simulation of how the sea turtle eggs are transferred was fascinating, as I had no idea it took so much patience and caution. I even had the privilege to hold a sea turtle egg. The egg that I held was ~5 days away from hatching, which is evident from the black spots encircling the egg.

After the educational portion, I explored Playa Bandera, which was breathtaking. The beach had hardly any trash and was absent of people. The sunset that I witnessed on the beach was the most alluring sunset I have ever seen in my lifetime. I chose to take a moment and take in a few breaths of fresh air while closing my eyes and concentrating on the harmonies of the beach. It was a true moment of bliss, and I wish I could go back. To top it off, everyone in the group was given their own fresh coconut from a coconut tree on the property. Coconuts are one of my favorite fruits, so I have had a lot of coconuts in my lifetime. Out of all of the coconuts I have had, that coconut was incomparable. Drinking straight from the coconut was slightly messy, as it was dripping all over my shirt, but I did not mind. After demanding days, the beach day was much needed and cherished. To finish off the day at the beach, I ended up uncovering a sand dollar. There are people who believe a sand dollar signifies freedom, robustness, flexibility, and selecting your own path. I felt the sand dollars significance, as I feel I am finally on the right path in life. The trip made me exhilarated for my future and what’s to come. I daydream for the next day that I am back in Costa Rica.

Pictured, me on playa Bandera drinking from the fresh coconut.

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4.

Hello again friends I have some more to say! Control your excitement.

This weekend, some friends and I decided we wanted to check out Playa Uvita, a beach supposedly shaped like a whale tail. We booked some beds in a hostel, headed to the bus station to get tickets, and packed up our backpacks to leave the next day. Our mama ticas and professors and just about everyone else warned us not to bring any valuables, not to bring much cash, not to bring our original passports, to stay together, and to keep an eye on our bags. Classic tourism advice, but it was your run-of-the-mill beach weekend, we’re adults, we’ve been to beaches, we could handle it.

So on Friday afternoon, we made our way to the bus station, got on the bus, and settled in for the next few hours. About 3.5 hours into the ride, the bus was stopped by police in a little middle-of-nowhere coastal town. The way that I describe it here sounds charming. Please hold for a more accurate description.

A police officer climbed onto our bus, and I assumed he maybe had a dog to check the bus for drugs, maybe they were looking for someone, or maybe it was just a routine stop. Either way, we weren’t doing anything illegal, we’re just some twenty-something Americans trying to get a sunburn. I don’t know. I’m new.

Instead, he said this: “Sacan ustedes los pasaportes. Voy a chequearlos.”

I know what you’re thinking. “Pasaportes? That looks like passports. Didn’t everyone tell you not to bring your passports?” And the answer is yes. Yes it does sound like passports, and yes they did tell us to leave them at home. Wouldn’t want to expose our passports to a questionable and dangerous situation.

After each of us gave the officer either a copy, a photo, or a screenshot of our passport numbers, heard the only other American on the bus say “get them off!” (Thank you sir, united we stand. Viva los Estados Unidos.), the officer pointed the three of us out and took us off the bus. He waved to our bus driver and we watched the bus that had just taken us three hours from home disappeared into a cloud of dust in the countryside to finish the next two hours of the drive without us. 

We stood on the side of the road with four fully armed officers for a few minutes while they radioed back and forth to confirm the identities of the three nervous five-foot-something Mysterious Threats To National Security they had just apprehended, effectively Saving The Citizens of Costa Rica From An Unending Era Of Terror, and only after a brief detainment in the police station during which time our identities were, in fact, confirmed and we were not held overnight or deported (a win), we were allowed to continue our trip. Though I will say, our stint in the clink did not feel great. We didn’t have any idea of what would or could happen to us, and the officers spoke to us like we were massive idiots. And maybe we were, but at this point our biggest problem was not the exact numbers of our IQs, but whether they were sufficient to get us the hell out of this town, whether that meant tucking our tails and heading back to San Jose, or forging onward with our trip.

Unfortunately, if you recall our bus had left us high and dry on the side of the road. Uber doesn’t exist anywhere near Parrita, Taxis wouldn’t even consider the  2+ hour drive to Uvita, not that we could trust the drivers or afford it anyway. We likely would have given him all our cash, asked to be taken as close to Uvita as possible, and just been driven in circles until our money ran out. We look pretty easy to take advantage of. Also, it was getting dark. 

Walking in the direction of the bus station the officers had vaguely motioned to, we passed zero women, zero children, and only various clusters of whistling, hissing, catcalling, young to middle-aged men. Morale was dropping. I subtly switched my backpack to a very cool (and not at all gigantic, flashing indicator of my lost-tourist status) frontpack.

There was no ticket window at the “bus station” (which turned out to be just a big, poorly-lit bus stop), but after our brief detainment, we felt pretty confident that we could sort out most things. All we wanted to do was leave this town. All we could foresee ourselves doing was sleeping in shifts on the cement bus station bench. 

Eventually, after an extreme amount of uncertainty, lots of conversations with bus drivers, a few hours of nervous laughing in the bus station, a man with wild eyes, one shoe, and one pant leg ripped haphazardly into shorts making his third lap around us and getting a little closer every time, the bus we were told to wait for finally pulled up. And it is from that angel bus, at 10pm, that I type this.

I’m excited to get back to you with an actual great experience from this beach weekend, but for now I’m just hoping the beds we reserved in the hostel are still available, and that we can actually find the hostel with no maps, no Uber, and in the pouring rain.

Side note: I think the town we were in was called Parrita, but after googling Parrita, Costa Rica, and finding beautiful photos of palm trees and sandy beaches and resorts, I’m beginning to think we may have been in a town outside of Parrita-- one with one motel, one Costa Rican equivalent of a Dollar Tree-- that I would have taken photos of, but didn’t feel safe taking my phone out, even in the daylight. 

Other than that, there’s no bananas.

---V

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La Sirena de la playa Esterillos Oeste, Parrita.

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COSTA RICA ~ Esterillos

The legend of the Esterillos Mermaid

The story is about a sphelt bronze figure that has immortalized the experience of a man from Parrita many years ago with a mermaid that they say only came close to the beaches of west Esterillos.

It was more than 30 years ago when Fernando Mora arrived to Parrita from Puriscal, during this time the beaches were almost uninhabited and there and no access roads and they often used the beaches as a way of access.

He walked along the beaches of Esterillos so many times and in the summer of 78 he saw a curious woman with a beautiful figure and with brown skin and only appeared close to the cove, with shock he saw the upper part of the body of the young woman was completely uncovered, she was naked and had long hair, he looked out to the sea everyday to see if he could find the young woman again.

Nevertheless he never actually saw the legs of the woman. She was always in the sea.

After a few days he became more confident and decided to get closer and ask who she was and why she wasn’t wearing any clothes. Of course the young girl immediately dived into the water and he just managed to catch a glimpse of her enormous tail, he was not convinced that this youngster could be any else but a woman.

He continued explaining the day with details when he heard the strange song from the youngster. It was one of those almost red afternoons when the sun sets the young woman was at the side of a rock watching the sunset and singing melodies that nobody has ever heard before, almost melancholic, like groans front goddess that although has everything and the sea was hers, she seemed to be missing something or had lost something. On that day he saw her tail and he tried to hide without success. That mermaid had stopped him in his tracks with a heavenly gaze and he had to get closer.

Fernando paused, he stayed watching the sea and suddenly he said “Yes, it was a mermaid, I saw her, she confirmed it with her look from heaven, and with that look she spoke to me in another language and I perfectly understood was she was saying. She told me her very long and sad story; she told me what her future was and what mine was. It is still not time to tell this story. I saw her twice and we spoke, and after that day I never saw her again.

I knew that I wasn’t going to see her again, she told me. Since this year I wanted to immortalize her figure, her heavenly gaze, in 1997 I managed to achieve this objective”. Fernando financed the construction of the bronze sculptor and is located on the rocks in the sea, in the malecones, on las caletas opposite the Hotel Sirena.

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Anyone who needs to enjoy nature and take a relaxing break from life, this luxury Sanctuary is for him. It has a gentle walk-through of herb and cacao gardens which bring peace to mind. 

 This healing home provides nourishment to the mind and soul; thus, it is the best farm for sale Costa Rica. 

The Luxury home consists of 5 outclass bedrooms with four attached baths. The luxury home also consists of a guesthouse. In that guesthouse, there are two guestrooms and one bathroom. The house is equipped with all necessary appliances and items for the kitchen as well as other rooms. 

It also has a swimming pool that is free of chemicals. The massage room makes this farm for sale Costa Rica a top pick for all. There is a good yoga platform and many other activities to look forward to.

The 10-acre organic cacao and herb in Divina Vida above the hills of Parrita, Costa Rica, is a certified organic farm for sale that follows pomiculture to produce these healing herbs. All these healing herbs are produced in the highest vibration and later used in chocolates, teas, tinctures, and capsules. The public road is also nearby, making the build lot worth it. 

 Buying this already functioning farm will expand your business to many folds. If you already run an organic herb business, you must consider buying this farm for sale in Costa Rica. Currently, the farm is filled with fruit trees. The herbs produced are coconuts, ginger, turmeric, cacao, acerola cherries, passionflower, guanabana, cinnamon, tulsi, mango, starfruit, hibiscus flowers, and a lot more other herbs that can be used in medicines. 

 This place also has seventy-acre land with water. The land is still undeveloped, and the person who will buy it will benefit a lot from it. The spectacular view of La Cangreje Valley makes it a sight worth seeing. 

 Flora and fauna, the birds, and the retreat house are excellent for spending a vacation. It has longer retreats and hiking tracks made. Swimming or horseback ride is also nearby if you want to do an outing. La Cangrega national park is nearby, giving the best living experience ever. This farm itself is a spiritually uplifting place.

 Incredible waterfalls can be found within the range of 3km, and natural pools are also made. The Pacific Ocean is only 25 minutes away. visit now :https://buymyfarm.co/

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The Costa Rican Mule Festival in Parrita is an annual celebration of the country’s rich cultural heritage and a tribute to the hardworking mule. The festival, which takes place in the picturesque town of Parrita, is a lively and colorful event that attracts tourists and locals alike.

The festival started in 1989 and was originally a mule race between farm workers. At first, it was hosted at the Esterillos’ airfield, and later, it was moved to Parrita by Aristides Porras.

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The festival begins with a parade through the streets of Parrita, featuring beautifully decorated mules and their riders. The mules are adorned with bright flowers, colorful ribbons, and intricate harnesses, making them a stunning sight to behold. The parade is accompanied by lively music and the sounds of clanging bells, creating a festive atmosphere that is contagious.

One of the highlights of the festival is the mule race, which tests the speed and agility of these strong animals. The race is a thrilling spectacle, with mules galloping at top speed and riders clinging to their backs. The competition is fierce, and the winner is crowned with a ribbon and a round of applause from the crowd.

This year’s event is expected to feature between 30 to 40. The mule, “La Macha,” is the favorite, as it has won the races for the past three years.

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Week recap (en Parrita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKgJT2uNXY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Found a puppy roughly small enough to fit inside my heart. But I didn't steal her. I did leave my heart there, just in case she needs somewhere to sleep. (at Parrita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica)

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Mi nuevo amiguito 🐶🐕♥️ (at Parrita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ZVFa8Ba4U/?utm_medium=tumblr