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October 6, 2005
Last Day in Costa Rica
For our last day in Costa Rica we took it easy. We ran some errands and walked around a bit to get a feel for the city. Parts of the downtown area are relaxing and gorgeous, while others are hectic and unsightly, just like any other city. But San Jose seems to stand apart from other Central American capitals in its development.
At 9:00pm we headed to the bus station to catch the 10:00 bus to Panama City. If everything went according to plan we would be in Panama City at 4:00pm the next day. This will be our longest bus ride of the trip so far. At the station we met a Costa Rican, Mauricio (or Mau for short), who was just starting a trip through South America. In Panama he was planning on catching a boat to Columbia and then spending 5 months traveling before heading to England where he and his girlfriend were going to work. We were a bit jealous that he was going to be traveling into and through Columbia…until the three of us read our guidebook’s take on the city where Mau would need to catch the boat to Columbia. It was basically a strong warning to stay away from this dangerous city if at all possible. Still, Columbia sounds like it is an interesting place, once past the dangerous guerilla-occupied border areas.
At 11:00 the bus finally departed and after listing to a few lectures I downloaded on my MP3 player we were soon asleep.
Posted by Peter Mork at October 6, 2005 7:13 PM
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