This weekend the port city of Limón kicked off its annual Carnival festivities, a 12-day Caribbean street partycelebrating the kaleidoscope of cultures on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

Limón and the southern Caribbean towns of Cahuita, Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo are home to a thriving Afro-Caribbean community. Costa Rica’s Caribbean culture is so unique that it’s almost like going to another country to visit the area. You can hear both Spanish and Creole English, called patois, spoken everywhere...

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