Tag: Mountain Highland
Red Ginger
🔍 Red Ginger | Alpinia purpurata 🌺 📍 Orosi, Cartago, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Those vivid red “petals” aren’t petals at all — they’re bracts, with the true flowers being tiny white blooms tucked between them.
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.
Gran Área Metropolitana from Mirador La Ventolera
🔍 Gran Área Metropolitana from Mirador La Ventolera 🌃 📍 Mirador La Ventolera in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Perched high in the Zona Protectora Cerros de Escazú, this viewpoint turns the entire Central Valley into a sea of glittering lights — on…
The Central Valley from the Heights of Escazú
🔍 The Central Valley from the Heights of Escazú 🌄 📍 Mirador Tiquicia, San Antonio de Escazú, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 The Central Valley stretches across one of the most densely populated regions in Central America, cradling Costa Rica’s capital and surrounding cities…