Puerto Viejo isn’t for everyone.
If you need your beach vacation to be peppered with air conditioned rooms and restaurants; if you can’t comfortably share your room with the occasional gecko; if you get upset over spotty internet and power outages, then you might be better off visiting somewhere else.
But if you can accept Puerto Viejo for its flaws, it will accept you and yours.
Santa Teresa was taken over by crowds, dressed in white and carrying flowers to the beach. They laid them on the sand as a gesture to mourn a woman most of them never knew, but whom they had all heard about: MarÃa Trinidad Matus.
