Pura Vida - Costa Rica

   The journey continues... (Read the previous part  here ) It was 15:55, the moment I saw Costa Rican soil the for the first time. Even tough it was from 12000 metres above said soil... Costa Rica The first thing I noticed was the structure of the land . Whenever you lift off with a plane in europe, you see the easy recognizable pattern of agricultural-used plots , whereas Costa Rica seemed to only have a minimal amount of those. It looked wilder, untamed . And a lot of green . About half an hour we started the descent and more details revealed themselves. I must admit, that those details shocked me a little bit. Many, many small huts with rusty metal sheets as roofs.  - Where did I land here? - From a normal european neighborhood to this? - But soon the plane got to close to the ground to see more of it. 16:42, that was what the clock was showing the moment the plane stopped. Germany Before driving off to Costa Rica, all I was hearing were things like: "Costa Rica...

  The journey continues... (Read the previous part here ) After all the bureaucracy was done, it was time for the personal belongings to be processed. In this post, I want to lay out our experiences spending the first few month in Costa Rica. This might be useful for you, if you are on the verge of emigrating to a country in Latin-america. The challenges were, that in Costa Rica, getting a hold of some things can be really challenging . So here is a list of things you  might need to bring: Good quality items Migrating from Germany, we realised that there is a big difference in the quality of american products to european brands. Even the ones imported from the US lack durability and practicability. I, for example, brought some tools, baking pans for bread and high-quality kitchen knives. Rye flour It is really hard to find rye flour. In fact. as of now, beeing in Costa Rica for ten weeks we have not found it anywhere. This is because the country does not cultivate any cereal...

My flight to Costa Rica in June of 2021 was the first long-haul flight I have ever made. All the more important to make a good plan. I had a really difficult time planning the trip and found it hard to get all the information I needed. So I will try to give a simple overview over what has to be fought of when going to Costa Rica. Also, everthing was under the special condition of covid-protocols. 1 - The flight First step for us was to look up a flight. I can`t really comment on this issue, because you may come from a different place than me. In generell there are multiple companies flying to Costa Rica regularly. For example Airfrance, Lufthansa, KLM, Edelweiss Air or Iberia. We travelled with AIRFRANCE , and were really satisfied. Direct flights go from PARIS . LUFTHANSA flies from FRANKFURT direct, KLM is something for the dutchman from AMSTERDAM , EDELWEISS AIR from ZÜRICH and IBERIA lets you travel from MADRID . As of the date of this post, the cheapest option is around 220€ (...