Border Crossings

The main border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is at Peñas Blancas, as the Moon tour guide describes, and this is where we crossed in October. What an eye-opening experience that was - the place was JAMMMED with trucks! They apparently line up for days before they manage to get across. Fortunately, we only had to wait an hour or so (was it that long?). However, it appears that a crossing in December would have been much different:

Thousands of Nicaraguans crossed back to their country and broke the record immigration from the 22nd to the 23rd of December at the border crossing of Peñas Blancas, La Cruz, Guanacaste. According to data from the Directorate of Immigration, in only two days 26,409 crossed the border almost 50% more than in 2011, when there was a return of 17,834 foreigners to Nicaragua in those two days.

With a little bit of luck, I'll have some photos to post sometime soon. In the meawhile, read more about it here:Costa Rican Timess.