blue-white in the brown-gray-green paradise, Costa Rica 2007
If images from countries such as Costa Rica show is nearly always the word "paradise". In most cases, however, with the words "tropical" and that means that maybe is not a paradise. Namely, what one never sees in the pictures, is the extremely high humidity and oppressive heat that some people can be more life into hell. But sometimes you see in television pictures as people sweat during the interview, even though they sit comfortably with a cool drink in the shade under a fan and do exactly nothing, except the camera team to answer a few questions. In paradise you sweat so alone doing nothing.
The beach in the photo is really a dream beach. It is located in Tortuguero on the Atlantic coast, where we are on the same evening sea turtles were observed during oviposition. And despite the rain were offered beautiful photo opportunities, or just bizarre situations with the tourists and the sharp contrasts between the sometimes very poor rural population and the consumption of spoiled children from Europe or North America. while we can think about how best our photo equipment protect what we should only do with our books, which after a night in tropical paradise curl, as if they had lain for five days in the rain, and whether the effigy of a infant's also a seat in the boat is available (see left), many people there is no running water must be clean and more Hours paddling through the jungle to reach the nearest human settlement. This Costa Rica is still one of the positive examples from Central America, and I fear that in some other countries in the region, it still looks a lot worse. Now and then you should probably ask what is really important in life, and what I can contribute as a photographer to do so. But this question I will not discuss further, everyone should answer for themselves. This is not easy, there are several answers, not just a right.
end has me the "paradise" then spat out prematurely after just over three weeks since I had caught such a bad virus infection that we had to cancel the trip early. When I was just as good that I could get on a plane, we are back to Germany, where I needed more than a month to get me to recover fully. So much for "paradise" ...
Yet I can to anyone who does not mind the sweat, continuously, in good conscience recommend to travel to Costa Rica. After each walk you will be a completely sweaty T-shirt more, but eventually makes one's also no longer sufficient, because it dries so nothing in the high humidity, most with low probability, if a little wind is up, but even then it takes It is three days, then the laundry after all, only instead of soaking wet clammy. Pura Vida!
I'm tired of the German winter weather. I'm dreaming of going to Costa Rica and drinking ice cold Cuba Libre on the beach. What are you dreaming of?
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