Today we went on a bus adventure. We took the bus to San Jose, and from there to Zarcero. There was no real purpose in this trip other than to have a day out. Riding buses might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but the scenery on the rides into the mountains is just stunning and since we don’t have a car…Zarcero itself is small town with all the normal things found in a Costa Rican small town including the church facing a park. But the park here is somewhat different. Remember Edward Scissorhands? Well everyone in Zacero looks like him.
No not really.
But in the central park there are lots and lots of bushes pruned into all kinds of strange and interesting shapes (topiary, of course). Gardener Evangelisto Blanco has been trimming and shaping the bushes of this park since the 1960s and he is obviously very imaginative (or strange). The shaped bushes that we came across included a dinosaur, numerous faces, a turtle, creatures dancing, something that seemed to resemble the honey monster from sugar puffs and a cat riding a motorbike!
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