Puerto Viejo

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, the pulsing cultural heart of Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, is a place unlike anywhere else in the country — a small, colorful, bike-friendly beach town where Afro-Caribbean, Bribri indigenous, Tico, Rastafarian, and international cultures have woven together into something genuinely unique: reggae music at dusk, jerk chicken and rice-and-beans at a family soda, world-class surf at Salsa Brava, sloths in the treetops on the path to the beach, and a community of people from dozens of countries who chose this exact combination of wildness, warmth, and tropical beauty over easier options.

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