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Costa Rica!!

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So this is our 2.5 year trip!! One year on the long and bumpy road of South and Central America. Our second year started off with 12 weeks in New Zealand, then we headed to Australia! Eagerly clutching our working holiday visas we stayed in Australia for one year for work and travel. The last leg of our 30-month trip was 3.5 months in SE Asia. (We are home now and oh how we miss travelling!)

Costa Rica!!

We left the tropical rain storms behind in Panama and arrived in San Jose on Friday afternoon. San Jose is, in a word, a hole. We stayed in a hostel fairly central to the city and in a cab ride back late on Friday night we soon realised that the drug/brothel/homeless area of the city was right around the corner from our hostel. Lovely. Lots of scary looking people doing scary looking things with other scary looking people. I really wish hookers would wear trousers or at least close their legs when they are sprawled out on the street with someone. Ummmm.

So left this part of town and found another hostel in the outskirts of the city and much nicer and less scary. Just a few days here in capital though to run a few errands and soon will be moving on outta here! If you ever feel the need to visit San Jose, well just unfeel that need and miss it out.

annadean says:
Thanks!!
Posted on: Jul 17, 2007
kitichui says:
Oh, good tip! WHere is a better city to fly into then if we want to avoid San Jose?
Posted on: May 17, 2007
Higton says:
Welcome to my adopted home! Try and find Bar Morázon (next to the park of the same name). It rocks.
Posted on: Jan 09, 2007
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