San Jose zip lining

The next day Ryan had to work so it was just Steve, Brandon and I. And at the guys request we went on a canopy zip line tour. Since we didn’t want to drive the 4 hour round trip to [[Costa-Rica/Monteverde]], where the good zip lining is, we were limited to the local San Jose zip-line companies.

I can’t remember what the company was called but it was out toward Tres Rios. The tour started with an awesome off road drive in their old Suburban truck. The drive was crazy but handled it. Then we had a tiring 25 minute hike up the hill to the start of the zip lines.

Me, Brandon and Steve zip lining

There were 12 zip lines and 2 rappels. Steve and Brandon totally dug the rappels. After the zip lining we had a typical Costa Rican casado lunch at the really nice restaurant; part of the tour. To my Surprise it ended up being a really good tour and fun day.

Me zip lining with Tres Rios behind me

After the tour we came back to San Jose and I took the guys on a walking tour around San Jose. We went to the artisan row were the guys bought souvenirs for the family. Next I wanted to take them to the National Museum, which has a wonderful ornate neo-classical design on the inside, but it was late in the afternoon and the museum was closed for tours.

Steve and me Park Espana in downtown San Jose

Brandon in the bamboo tree in Park Espana in downtown San Jose

Instead we just walked around the city and enjoyed the various tropical central parks (one of my favorite things about San Jose) and the few worthy architectural building in San Jose; there’s not many compared to Los Angeles or Europe for that matter.

Architecture in San Jose

Park Morazan and downtown San Jose

Anyways after all our sightseeing and tours we were all exhausted. We went for a delicious dinner at a Peruvian restaurant called Inka then meet up with Ryan for farewell drinks when he got off work. All in all I think Steve and Brandon got a good taste of “touristy” Costa Rica. And we all agreed we really really enjoyed the time spent together. It kinda made me miss home, family and friends BUT not enough to come home yet. Haha.

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ryan & debbrial on March 17, 2010 from San Jose, Costa Rica

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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