Costa Rica is such a beautiful place. Everyone keeps asking me why I do not move there instead of Leo coming to Canada. Sometimes I wonder why (especially on a few of those blizzardy -15 degree celsius days over the winter!) myself. But we have many more opportunities to live in Canada and can visit Costa Rica as much as we want. Canada is a great place to live and over my many travels I have enjoyed so many other places and cultures but I am always happy to come back home to our wonderful country. One day Leo and I hope to save enough to buy a condo or a small house near the beach in Costa Rica so we can spend extended time there and also have a home away from home.
Here is a little info on Costa Rica and lots of reasons why I love it there so much (well, Leo is the number one reason)!
Costa Rica represents a destination unique in the world, capable of offering, in the smallest geography territory known, the greatest amount of riches no other country has. There are many different climates and landscapes to be seen in only a few hours, Tropical Rain Forest in the Caribbean, Tropical Dry Forest in the North and Central Pacific Coast, South Pacific Tropical Rain Forest in the South Pacific, Paramo and High Mountain Cloud Forest in the Central Mountain Range that splits the country in two, bizarre Volcanic scenes and Central Valley and Sub Mountainous Forest in the Central Valley.Rivers and estuaries, swamps and Mangroves, the Pacific only four hours from the Caribbean... the attractions are simply immense.Very few are the countries in the planet that were capable to undertake the precious actions as Costa Rica did, aimed at preserving the invaluable treasure of its natural resources.
13000 varieties of plants ( More that Canada and U.S.A together )
3000 species of Butterflies
237 species of mammals
848 species of birds among
383 known species of reptiles and amphibians.
The wide biodiversity, typical of the Costa Rica Territory, also affects the people... In fact, people of different colors and credos live together- here - in total reciprocal respect. Such an evident tolerant inclination in the nature of Costa Ricans has turned him into an amiable, spontaneous and obliging person, friendly and self-assured, gifted with a strong national pride...Smiles are sincere in Costa Rica and a special cordiality radiates from people's faces, so difficult to be found in other places of the world.Costa Rica is also one of the oldest Democracies of America enjoying today such political stability that earned the country the Name " The Switzerland of the Americas "Peace and perpetual neutrality are based on courageous convictions, to the extent that the country has no army, that being prohibited by its constitution.
