Virago was in Puntarenas, Costa Rica from early May until late August of 2010. Puntarenas was once the bustling busiest port on the west coast of Costa Rica. It is at the head of a twenty mile long bay far from the open Pacific. Today it is struggling economically since the port was moved about twelve miles to the south. It has a population of over 100,000 people who are trying to regain some prosperity catering to the cruise ships that use the revamped municipal pier. (The large building in the pictures is the old train station, now part of the local technical school, but mostly empty.) It has a fine dark sand beach and all the usual businesses that grow around a malecon regularly flooded with tourists including some ecotourism businesses providing day trips for the cruisers.
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