526: Envision festival, Uvita tips, and bears who must not be named
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Hola from Costa Rica, in the last week of my 2.5 month abroad journey this year.
I spent the last week at Envision Festival, a hippie/raver festival on the beach in Uvita that is probably the hardest and longest I’ve ever partied in my life. (7 days straight with Saturday off for food poisoning.)
If you’re into the hippie world OR bass music, I highly recommend. Rent a nice airbnb in town to beat the 90 degree humid heat though - IDK why anyone does this in a tent.
Festival highlights:
hippie ecstatic dance nightly warmups into raver music late nights.
welllness yoga/kirtan/singing/cacao afternoon recoveries.
a 5 minute walk to beach sunsets and sunrises.
cashless wristband payments everywhere with incredible food.
vendors selling high quality clothes and accessories I actually bought.
Pino and Loeb, Dubfire, Polish Ambassador, STS9 and so many musical artists.
Uvita tips:
The Uvita waterfall is accessible and delightful and you can jump or toboggan it.
Awake retreat center is by the river in town and delightful, while Selva Armonia is up a dirt road and more tucked away.
Domincalito nearby has good surf, while the Nayauaca waterfalls and Holos retreat center are truly stunning to behold.
Manual Antonio state park an hour away was absolutely packed with animals, although entrance is limited per day so book in advance.
I heard Chimiro and Chirrupo up the mountain are delightful and way less hot.
Technology
I’ve posted about consumer tech that the space race gave us before here, but somehow missed the wikipedia article. LASIK, Invisalign, tempur pedic foam, and solar are all things which have enriched my life that I have NASA to thank for.
Ideologies
An exploration into ‘dagnabbit’ (goddammit) wanders into evocative linguistic wonders exploring how northern european cultures named bears things that obscured their terror, like honeyeater, while languages who don’t encounter bears just called them ‘bear’. But Germans call them ‘baren’ so idk….
Slate Star Codex examined Ivermectin’s COVID effects and determined it cures parasites more than covid, which in term helps you fight covid. He also mused about capitalist solutions solving charity issues and about that polyamory book making the rounds being insufferable because its a memoir, not cuz shes poly.
Memes
This hilarious glossary of hippie terms found in Brooklyn resonates to my Bay self.
Abundance (noun): when other people give you things that they purchased because they have a job, and you are attractive [related to the Playa provides]