The End of the Beginning

In San Jose we settled into Tranquillo Backpackers - a nice hostel in a less than nice part of town. Our guide book warned us that it was a booming red-light district by night, but even when we arrived early evening, the hostel manager was horrified to see us leave the car unattended - "Go, NOW, go and stand by it. Yes, go NOW." - albeit that it was locked, within eyesight, and a 10 second walk away!

Rich's birthday fell during our stay so we went out to sample the nightlife and ended up on something of a wild goose chase, taxi hopping around the city to try and find 'the place to be' - who would have though it could be so difficult to track down in a capital city? At any rate, we had fun, although it's not somewhere I'll be rushing back to. It was nice to be back in the hustle and bustle of a city though, and I enjoyed drifting around, window shopping and people watching for a couple of days, before I packed by bags and said goodbye to Central America for (very nearly) the last time.

For this trip at least.

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Alex Kent on October 11, 2007 from San Jose, Costa Rica

from the travel blog: On the Varieties of Nature

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