Costa Rica

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🇨🇷 Today's country is Costa Rica. This republic abolished its army in 1948 and never brought it back. In Monteverde, the cloud forest smells of wet bark and orchids, and your jacket stays beaded with mist. At lunch, a roadside soda in the Central Valley sends out gallo pinto, fried plantain and coffee without fuss. By evening on the Pacific, whole beaches seem to pause for sunset, then go back to surfing, fishing or doing very little at all. 📍 Places to visit • Arenal Volcano National…

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