It’s Monday, it’s cold but it isn’t wet and there is no school due to the King’s birthday holiday. This week are looking at Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is a rugged, rain forested Central American country. The name Costa Rica literally translates to “rich coast”.
Roughly a quarter of its area is made up of protected jungle, teeming with wildlife including spider monkeys and quetzal birds.
It is home to cultural institutions like the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, Costa Rica is known for its beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity.
Though its capital, San Jose, it has a population of around 5 million and currency is the Colon with Spanish as it’s official language.
The national flag of Costa Rica is based on a design created in 1848 and consists of two blue stripes, two white stripes, and a central red stripe which is twice as wide as each of the other four.
As to how safe it is to visit well the U S Travel Advisory site says exercise increase caution while there and Australia’s Smart traveller site has it as high level of caution needed while there. Other sites say it is a safe place to visit I guess it just depends on what is happening at any given time.
It’s ranking on the Global Peace Index is 123, what that means I don’t know, Australia’s ranking is 22, the United Kingdom is ranked 37 and the USA is ranked at 131. Oh, and last week’s country Nicaragua is ranked 123. I don’t know what it means but found it interesting. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/#/
Jo-AnneRamplings 
Dearest Jo-Anne,
Our best friends have been there on vacation but it would not be a country that is drawing me.
As for those rankings about peaceful countries—there are several sites and all with different ratings!
Depends on the affiliation of the organization conducting such rankings… They often are way too much influenced by politics as usual.
A fact is that the crime rate in the USA has gone way up with the stupid Biden policy of open borders—just to attract people that would vote for him and his cronies.
We don’t open our front door for letting anyone come in and using our home and food available… We lock our homes out of protection for our loved ones!
Hugs,
Mariette
Not a place I wish to visit and I found those rankings weird and not quite right, I would have checked out some other sites but I was starting to have trouble concentrating so gave up and posted what I had.
Those listings for sure are not unbiased!