вторник, 18 декабря 2012 г.
Our main beaches differ in their quality and while all the beaches in the Pacific region boast with
Limón means lemon, but for us here in Costa Rica it means a whole range of things and the word has more connotations than just its meaning direct out from the dictionary. Limón is one of our seven provinces, it has a whole wealth pot of diversity in culture and history. It is also home of a region wherein the remains of the original Costa Ricans live.
However Limón has had a past which has excluded them from the capital, the reasons were simple, they were different, they had darker skin color and the whole metropolitan hampton inn hotels area was populated with Spaniards who left the Caribbean coast of our country because the weather was simply too much for them. Costa Rica car rental
Who would have known that a couple of hundred of years afterwards this region would become a jewel. A jewel which you cannot miss either, specially if you are the type of traveler whose passion is to go from beach to beach feeling the difference and enjoying all that nature has to offer.
Our main beaches differ in their quality and while all the beaches in the Pacific region boast with a somewhat dry weather, the Caribbean is blessed with humidity the type that will simply make the most exotic flora flourish just there, hampton inn hotels a couple of feet from the beach.
But the Caribbean is much more than the difference in humidity of the region it has to do with their people. This province consists of over 90% of afro-descendants and it adds a lot of coconut, lime and spice to our lives and to Costa Rica as we know it.
The past 12 October, which this year we celebrated it on the 15 October was the day we originally called the Race Day, that was when we were taught at schools that humans had different colors. With the years new awareness about cultural diversity has converted this day in the Day of Culture. In Costa Rica, this single province of Limón represents diversity and for this reason the famous Limón Carnival was usually related to the day the cultures met back in the colonial times.
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