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Fiesta in Costa Rica

Guanacaste style

If you are planning to invest abroad one thing that must consider besides location, location, location -and price of course - is what society are dealing with.

Costa Rica is a very special Country and special countries are made of special citizens. Known all over the world as a society peaceful and friendly toward investors , costarricans are very good neighbors, proof of this is that a high percentage of second homes are taken care by costarricans or just watching on the "gringo's" lot or home.

But working is not everything, -thank God-, and is this northwestern part of the country they are very serious when it comes to parting. All of the dry season is Fiesta season. You can tour the region from one weekend into the next non stop for some 5 to 6 months. Usually, towns only half a mile away start the party just after the neighbor finishes their own. In a region so proud of its heritage must be an honor to live in.

All these parties gravitate around the Guanacaste's pride, costarrican style Rodeo.

And, if by any reason you’re staying in any of these towns – and it could be any town – at the right time, you may have one of those veteran’s flashbacks: 04:300 hours for some twenty minutes the mortar shells roars up into the sky, and then, one explosion after the other rattles the windows and set off the alarm of your car. By then you are covering your wife with your body, and probably thinking in the Medal of Honor you’ll get for such heroic death.

Picture of Early morning sky lit by fireworks, close to Flamingo Beach

Early morning sky

Outside, dogs are barking, geese honk, and yes, the alarm, where did I put the keys of my car? !!! In the dark you hear men yelling things that you don’t understand, you don’t understand either why the mortar outgoing is getting closer every time they fire a round. If you’re brave enough to sneak out the window you’ll see a band playing circus-like music on top of a falling apart pick up truck, just after it, another pick up with a, wait a minute, it’s that a mortar?, and while rubbing your eyes to look better, BOOM ! Just in front of your window another loud explosion, and again the alarm go off, and again you don’t remember where I dropped my keys. By then you are probably joined by you’re brave wife and scared kids and together look out the window, and wonder from where all that people came from … There where no guys in this sleepy town when I arrived and now, at quarter to five is almost a hundred people parading and waiving at you, with, hold on… it’s that cold drinks in their hands?

Welcome to Guanacaste’s fiestas season. The bomb’s session repeats at noon , -sharp-, As often as they have one.

Picture of a panoramic view of a bullring in the Town of Villarreal shown the crowd that attents this show, close to Flamingo Beach

Villarreal, Guanacaste

Around the bullring the fiesta explodes, tents sell all sort of goods, from local food, some delicious, to other not so familiar, to toys, furniture, pizza, sugar candy, cowboy boots ,- at very good prices and quality- carrousels, hats, shoes, sunglasses, clothing, and you name it…

Picture of a Bull ring in Santa Cruz showing the barrera and the crowd close to Flamingo Beach

Santa Cruz, Guanacaste

But the queen of the party is the bullfight, and in Guanacaste, bull riding is a very ancient tradition. The bullring is made of trunks of local trees, with seats for the kids and the elderly –and some cautious gringos- since girls, full grown women and young kids prefer the "barrera", the rim of the bullring where the action is; traditionally you don’t pay to go to the barrera, where you accommodate yourself as you can, because there are few rules to follow, actually just one, you may allow whoever comes running for his life to slip under your legs or climb up and take your place. Failing in doing so may be hazardous to someone’s health, as shown in the picture above.

The good news is that bombing, the band, more bombs at napping time, and bullfights continue in some places for a full week.

By then you probably decided to join them and only then is where you discover that the Guanacaste’s warm is not in the weather but in its people, Lets the Fiestas continue!!!