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But it’s ok, around 12pm we were on our way to the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. With our luggage walking around the market area we felt once again that all eyes were on us. The walk to the other bus terminal we needed to walk to (Terminal MEPE) was also not that pleasant. The value of the stamp is printed on the spot depending where your item is shipped to, which was quite cool and different from all the other post services we have seen around. The postal service itself was also quite cool. The typical colonial building in the middle of the city center has a very nice facade and the location would serve it well to be a successful hotel. The main highlight for us was the post office ? we thought it could be another good Fullerton Hotel in Singapore “type of project”. I am sure there are nice day trips that can be arranged from here, but so far it did really simply strike as the base to take transport to all the various other areas of the country. Another nice thing about San Jose is that it is surrounded from all sides by mountains. We also found a ChinaStreet ? We tried to look for a dim sum place to have our breakfast, but we were unsuccessful. The city did not seem to have many high rises, and it was pleasant enough with a few colonial buildings scattered around. As we walked the streets we felt everyone’s eye was on us, perhaps because I was carrying my camera around, or perhaps we were just preconditioned to be unhappy about the place from the night before? The following day we set off early, trying to explore the town a bit for the short time we planned to stay. Luckily we were at the doorstep of our place hence our interaction stopped there but whether he had bad intentions, whether he wanted to recommend a place to stay that he knew about or he was simply friendly or others, is unknown, but we definitely did not have a good first impression.
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he knew that the town can be quite dodgy at night. We declined and the first thing he says was that he was a “safe” person to talk to i.e. The guy came out of the bar and was probably a bit tipsy and in English he approached us asking if we needed anything. We were looking for the entrance which was at the top of a flight of stairs next to a bar. We reached our place and the only encounter we had was bumping into a dude right outside our hotel. We still had 4 or 5 blocks to walk and the streets were completely empty besides a few homeless sleeping on the pavements. By the way, prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, hence the night clubs we had to walk in front of were not the fanciest. Soon later we had to walk across a few night clubs. The road from this bus terminal goes down a hill over a small bridge all of which was poorly lit and no shops or people were around. However the walk to the hostel was not that pleasant. We thought Costa Rica was going to be a oasis of peace, considering that it is considered the safest of the Central America’s countries, one of the richest and a very popular holiday destination. Our flight from Panama City to Colombia was scheduled for the 7th of April, which left virtually no time to properly visit any spot of both Costa Rica or Panama. This was the last chance for many travelers to get to the capital from the villages past the border. The ride was longer than expected and this was probably because we caught the last bus leaving the border with Nicaragua heading to San Jose.
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