The Town of Liberia Costa Rica

We spent a day in the town of Liberia, Costa Rica, taking a bus (which didn't come very frequently) from the main road near our hotel. The heat was beating down on us, and just walking for five minutes was a hot and sweaty task. By the time we got to the main road to catch the bus, we were really feeling the heat.

The bus was not air conditioned, just a regular bus, full of tired hot people. The bus took almost an hour to get to the town of Liberia. We had no idea where to go, but we needed a bank first of all and there were plenty of banks there. That, is, there were plenty of banks and also American banks and one Canadian bank. I needed some cash and we had been told that there was shopping in Liberia. After the bank, we started to walk around, asking some people if there were some nice churches, shopping, restaurants and we got directions and started walking.

On our way, we saw lots of North American fast food joints such as McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Nothing special and those are the last places I would eat anyway. We kept walking, looking for maybe the historical part of town. It's interesting, to see this little town, it's busy, people going about their business, children rushing out of school or into school, vendors selling stuff. There were lots of shops, many tourist shops selling t-shirts etc.

We stopped in to a couple of shops and my husband bought a couple of t shirts. We saw a couple of churches and then walked to the end of one street and found a little white Colonial church, probably quite old, but not cared for and locked up. We took some photos and then found a little place to have some lunch. There were some shops selling some high end goods, but we weren't really interested in shopping.

The day was long and tiring, the heat making it worse. We caught a bus back to the main road of the hotel, sort of exhausted. Liberia is nothing special and if I came back here, I wouldn't bother. We would later go a couple of times to Coco Beach where the shopping for tourists is better and there are more choices for eating and it's a much nicer place.

'til later, Costa Rica.