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Mark Moxon's Travel Writing

Costa Rica: San José

The Teatro Nacional on the Plaza de Cultura
The Teatro Nacional on the Plaza de Cultura

The capital of Costa Rica is an interesting place, though perhaps not in terms of the tourist attractions. It does have some good museums that are worth visiting – we popped into the Museum of Gold and it was a worthy diversion – and the Plaza de la Cultura is quite good fun with its pigeons and people-watching, but the part that we enjoyed most was checking out the huge variety of hookers on every street corner in the area round our hotel, while avoiding the eyes of the shifty characters hanging round there at night.

The Catedral Metropolitana
The Catedral Metropolitana
Parque Central
Parque Central