Costa Rica on Foot
In February and March, I visited the Barva district twice, and overall it was a very pleasant experience that I’d like to share with you. First, I’ll tell you about the patron saint festivities in San José de la Montaña, a community located 3 kilometers north of the city of Barva.
Next, I’ll talk about the Valentine’s Day activities in downtown Barva. I’ll keep this brief so you can enjoy the photos and videos from both events.
This is my second year attending a Christmas event organized by the residents of Central Street in San Joaquín de Flores, Heredia. This time it was November 23th 2025.
It is a small celebration that combines Christmas lights and Costa Rican street food.
I’m going to share some details that I saw that might motivate you to attend in person.
In this community, they celebrate Christmas in a more intense way, as evidenced by the striking lights that are now rare to find in Costa Rica.
I’ve been away from Ikemen Go for a while to the point I did not realize the Rollback Netcode beta is now fully integrated with the nightly build.
This nightly build is updated often, and it is up to date with every new fix and feature made by the devs.
After a few tests, reporting here and there, and more fixes from the kind guys in the Ikemen Discord forum, it seems that rollback is now very stable and playable in Ikemen Go.
If you want to download Art of Fury with Rollback netcode, click HERE. Latest nightly build of Ikemen Go is HERE.
To celebrate this, I updated my Ikemen Go port of Art of Fury to this new build, adding, in the process, a couple of things for the Training Mode.
This tutorial will be useful for those who want to play this game or any Ikemen Go game or personal build.
August 24, 2025, 1:00 p.m. My wife and I are traveling by bus to the city of Heredia, passing through the canton of Barva. At that moment, we notice that several people are wearing masks along with some very peculiar “balloons.”
A woman sitting in the seat in front of us told us that it was Saint Bartholomew’s Day, a date when people wear masks and hit each other with cow bladders (the “balloons”) filled with air or water.
The idea was to visit San Isidro de Heredia, but out of curiosity, we decided to stay in the city of Barva.
It was a very nice experience, and I would like to share with you the details of what we saw.
I was on my way to Vivero el Poro, near Santa Barbara de Heredia, with my wife when we discovered that the store had closed earlier than usual, I called the owner who kindly indicated that the store had closed early due to a football(soccer) final.
I called the owner who kindly indicated that he had closed early due to a matter related to the football final game.
Neither I nor my wife had any idea that the final was on Wednesday, May 28th.
We were aware that the first leg match had been held at the national stadium the previous Sunday. But we did not know the date of the second leg until that moment.
After having a cup of coffee at the Soda La Tapa del Perol, we decided to take a walk through the center of the city. This is what we saw.
I decided some months ago to go to Fraijanes, after some years of not visiting the area. This is a trite idea aroud here in Alajuela, everybody knows the park of Fraijanes and for some it is a boring and decaying place.
But I still find it amusing in some way and has an eerie ambience, if you get there in the right weather(cloudy).
The park is administrated by a state-owned company. It has seen better days but still has that charm for those mountain lovers and it is safe.
In the rest of this article, I would like to share what I saw on my last visit to this park and the town of Fraijanes.
Summer season is here in Costa Rica and I wanted to retake the search for good roads for walking and biking. I visited the small town of Rosales, located at the foot of the Barva Volcano.
One of the most lively towns in Costa Rica is the city of Heredia. The city has enough attractions worth a visit for those who are looking to have a glance at the everyday common folk lifestyle. Let’s take a look at what this place has to offer.
One year ago I went on vacation to Tortuguero, Limon. The Turtle Beach Lodge Hotel was my choice to stay in the area. It took me a while to talk about this travel because it was a trip of two days, but full of adventures. So let’s start this article talking about how to get there.
Such an adventure was going to El Salto Waterfalls. Not Paved roads, coffee farms, and the rainforest need to be going through to get to the Itiquis river where the waterfalls are located.