Yesterday’s WanderShopper post visited the pottery village of Guatil in Costa Rica where we watched potters working at their benches throwing pots. The village of Guatil has around 50 families making the pottery the same way they have through many generations over the past 200 years. Guatil has one of the largest concentrations of people […]
Central America
Visit Guatil, A Chorotegan Village for Costa Rican Pottery
For over 200 years families in the village of Guaitil have been making Costa Rican pottery. The indigenous Chorotega people have long ago lost their language and been absorbed into the general population of Costa Rica but you can still find traces of their culture in the pottery still being made in traditional ways as […]
Seashell Souvenirs on WanderShopper At Home
We’ve been having some single digit temperature days here in Michigan this week with wind chills well below zero. It doesn’t take too many of those before I start to fantasize about my favorite beaches. I was in Costa Rica at the beginning of the month and my tan/sunburn lines are still fading so it’s […]