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Travel Blogs from San Jose

New country, new adventure

A travel blog entry by gonroamin

We got out of America....for a while at least.
it's 30 degrees C here and 100% humidity.
Costa rica, first impressions San Jose isn't the sort of town you want to be wandering about in looking all lost and touristy. so we went for a walk into town :-) , took about 40 mins to get into the center, at which point we decided that there wasn't …

Costa rica , done

A travel blog entry by gonroamin

That's it the end of our costa rican adventure, and it was a really good start to our big trip. looking forward to Belize now , it will be different to costa rica, i'm sure, but I still think it will be a good destination. Can't wait to see our tree house in San Ignacio. Wonder if we get wi-fi internet up a tree in Belize...., Mmmmm! might be a few …

Travelling to Costa Rica

A travel blog entry by dna_adventures

... the others from the bus and our bags we manually checked.......well he didn't even open my bag, so Not sure that your would call that a security check! We had to walk across the border from Panama into Costa Rica. We got our passports stamped and waited on the bus to come and collect us. Back onto the bus and another 6 hours to reach the capital, San Jose. We got into here at about 8 o clock and we were ...

Next Stop: Costa Rica

A travel blog entry by episachen

... Rica, but it seemed to have been swallowed by a green thick jungle. There were no tall buildings to be seen anywhere, nor were there wide long roadways. The paths were narrow and winding and the houses were short and scattered; as if only those tough ones had managed to survive the opressive force of the trees. Only half consciously did I manage to take a shower, get some dinner and go to bed. Tomorrow would be a brand new ...

Do you know the way....

A travel blog entry by mikesprake

... bus having convinced me that I needed to revert to a spot of flashpacking. I checked in and took a stroll down to the centre in search of food.

Downtown San Jose, not sure what I can really say about it (it's not particularly nice) besides having the usual array of McFriedKing outlets and an abundance of shoe shops (in
numbers not seen since Chetumal, Mexico - that is going back!). In a moment of weakness, I succumbed to the hypnotic glare of the golden arches and ...