What are the "must visit" places in Costa Rica and Venezuela near Caracas?

Question

any food suggetions?

Answer 1

When I went to Costa Rica, we went white water rafting on the Pacuare, super fun, and we went zip-lineing and horse back riding in the rainforest near the Volcano Arenal.  After that we had a stop at Arenal Hot Springs, definitely neccesary after that day.

Our trip was pretty physical, but if youre not so adventurous, shopping in the bazzaar in San Jose was pretty fun (got a super-cool hammock.) Oh, and there's this town, Sarchi, that is famous for ox-carts (you might not want to buy one, but there are small souvenir ones) and they are super cool.

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And we visited this little town Zarcero, that has this cool little park with sculpted bushes.

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About a place to eat, we ate at our hotel most of the time (had a picnic lunch on the rafting day) but we did eat in this little cafe in San Jose, Nuestra Tienda, in La Plaza de la Democracia. It was cool, had a bunch of onions hanging from the ceiling. They serve the food on wood boards covered with banana leaves (dared my friend to eat it, very entertaining). The food was good, and it was pretty affordable, 2756.00 colones. (I don't really remember exactly how much that was, but I THINK it was like 5-6 bucks.)

It is a super-fun place to visit. Enjoy your trip.

PS those aren't my pictures, just the first thing that came up when I googled. If your interested I could e-mail some of mine.