Guineos (Bananas)
🔍 Guineos (Bananas) 🍌 📍 Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Botanically, the banana plant isn’t a tree at all — it’s the world’s largest herbaceous flowering plant, and each “trunk” only fruits once before making way for a new shoot.
Category: Costa Rica
Coffee Cherries
🔍 Coffee Cherries ☕ 📍 San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Coffee cherries don’t ripen all at once — even on the same branch you’ll see green, yellow, and deep red fruit side by side, which is why pickers return to the same plant…
Chinese-Style Fried Rice with Char Siu
🔍 Chinese-Style Fried Rice with Char Siu 🍚 📍 San José, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Char siu fried rice began as a clever way to use up day-old rice in Cantonese kitchens — stir-frying it hot and fast with leftover barbecued pork turned…
Lexus LFA, 2009
🔍 2009 Lexus LFA 🏎️ 📍 Escazú, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This isn’t a real LFA on wheels — it’s “Crystallized Wind,” a full-size acrylic sculpture of the car built by architect Sou Fujimoto, first unveiled at Milan Design Week in 2009.
1980-1990 Ford F-350 (Box Truck Conversion)
🔍 1980-1990 Ford F-350 (Box Truck Conversion) 🚚 📍 Puntarenas, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This retired F-350 got a second life as a mobile Churchill stand — Costa Rica’s beloved shaved ice, ice cream, and condensed milk dessert, often piled with fruit and served beachside.
International 4900 (Fire Truck), 2001
🔍 2001 International 4900 (Fire Truck) 🚒 📍 San José, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This truck’s chassis started life as a heavy-duty commercial hauler — the International 4900 was more commonly seen pulling dump bodies and box trucks before departments like Bomberos de…
AM General HMMWV (Humvee), 1991
🔍 1991 AM General HMMWV (Humvee) 🪖 📍 Atlanta, Georgia, USA 🇺🇸 💬 Before drones and cell uplinks, this is how war correspondents got live pictures out of a warzone — a Humvee turned into a rolling satellite newsroom, dish and all.
Buick Reatta, 1988
🔍 1988 Buick Reatta 🚗 📍 San José, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This was Buick’s first-ever two-seater since the 1950s, and it was hand-assembled at a special “craft center” where robots shuttled each car between workstations instead of a regular assembly line.
Western Honey Bee
🔍 Western Honey Bee | Apis mellifera 🐝 📍 Heredia, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 A single foraging trip can take her to 50–100 flowers, and it’s that same nonstop hustle powering the tiny white blooms she’s working here.
Golden Silk Orb-weaver
🔍 Golden Silk Orb-weaver | Trichonephila clavipes 🕷️ 📍 Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This spider spins silk with a natural golden sheen so strong that researchers have woven it into experimental textiles — and a single female can build a web over a meter…
King Swallowtail
🔍 King Swallowtail | Papilio thoas 🦋 📍 Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This giant of a butterfly is nearly a twin of the Giant Swallowtail — the two species are so alike that even lepidopterists rely on wing-spot counts and genitalia to tell…
Mountain White
🔍 Mountain White | Leptophobia aripa 🦋 📍 Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Despite the “mountain” name and a home range above 2,000m, this butterfly happily wanders into city gardens and vacant lots — its caterpillars have a particular fondness for backyard cabbage patches.