Guanacaste Days - Celebrating Democracy's Heritage in Costa Rica. From: World and I | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: Gadwa, Tess | COPYRIGHT 2001 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On my first full day in Costa Rica, I was buying postcards when music suddenly poured through the shop door. Outside, children in giant masks and stilts, or dressed as bulls, skeletons, angels, and monsters, were parading past. The shopkeeper danced along to the music as she counted out my change. Earlier that day, when a friend and I arrived at the Banco Nacional to change our currency, we were amazed to find marimbas filling the room with traditional Guanacastan music, and teenag...

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