Central Market (Mercado Central) San Jose

We arrived safely, in one piece in Alejuela, Costa Rica yesterday. Despite what our plane tickets said, there is no longer an airport in San Jose. The warm temperatures are amazing in comparison with what we are used to in Michigan. :) Upon our arrival we were welcomed with rain. Imagine that! Here, it is is very sunny in the morning and the …

The hotel has a nice breakfast buffet with fresh juice - passion fruit maybe. I got out as soon as I could after breakfast - the walk to the central plaza is not far and quite direct. I think I wandered around a bit in the beginning, passed by the Teatro Nacional and the second of the bird statues that are all around town and went to the Gold …

My first weekend in Costa Rica has been quite an exciting whirlwind! I really don't even know where to start.

I arrived at 4 am Thursday morning, so I basically went right to sleep and Thursday was spent settling in and resting. My host mom took me to the mall to get a cell phone, and I was so overwhelmed. It's already kind of funny …

Yesterday, we both needed a 'mental health day' so Morgs had the day off school and we headed to the centre of San Jose.

Public transport here is so convenient. Bus timetables don't exist as buses run in and out of town every couple of minutes. From our suburb it is a 20 min ride into the city centre. It costs 230 colones which is about 50 …

... and food and you could even have beer if you wanted. We also did alot of wandering around downtown last week going to the Central Market several times and going to various malls. Also, Last Thursday was a lot of fun too. First we went to this really ...

... get tickets, because wednesday is 2 for 1 and they sell out fast.  On Wednesday my class had to go to the central market for a scavenger hunt type activity where we had to talk to the locals that worked there to find out different things about ...

... anywhere in the city from our hostel. Throughout our walk today we walked through the Parque Central, the university area, and the Central Market. We met some very nice people our age from Sweden and several people from Cananda, one of whom is in the ...

... needed rest and spent the day walking around the central plaza where there are a lot of stores, restaurants and vendors.  The central market was also located there where I had the traditional meal of Costa Rica, chicken, rice, macaroni, salad and a ...

... ) and 95 percent of the businesses are closed! But Hypermas (CR branch of Walmart) and McDonalds are open. Even the big central market is closed for the holiday. Mike & Kirsten went souvenir shopping at the few places that are open for business. ...

... half an hour. Walked right past the building I was looking for twice and even sat in the park infront of it. I was to the central market which was huge an had turkeys and chickens in a pet shop in there...then I watched a million pigeons (some were being ...

San Jose The next stop was Costa Rica's capital, reached by a longish drive from La Fortuna through some beautiful cloud forest.  This is not really what you would call a fun trip, but it had one outstanding highlight. I think that we have seen a ...

... Since I was from the US, he expected me to want US fast food.  So when I told him I wanted Costa Rican food, he said that the Central Market was close by and they would have prepared food.  Good advice. And that they did.  So many ...

... developements are focus on Northern and Southern neighbors of Costa Rica. Ironically, now Costa Rica is the richest couontry in the entire Central America due to its leader Oscar Arias´ focus and peace and spending money developing the ...

hello everyone! thank you for reading :) so it dawned on me that i should post some more pictures and really show my viewers what my life looks like. (if anyone actually reads this thing!!) i mean its only logical right? and it only took me 5 and a ...