Limón
Caribbean, Costa Rica
Puerto Limón is the Caribbean's working port city and the historic heart of Afro-Caribbean culture in Costa Rica. You'll hear Creole on the street and eat food with roots in Jamaica, and every October the whole city turns out for Carnival. It has the region's main hospital, but it's a gritty city, and most foreigners live down the coast.
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