The kind of trip

City and museums

What the country keeps indoors: museums, a theatre, a market and neighbourhoods you can walk. It's the first and last thing almost every visitor sees, and almost nobody gives it a day.

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San José

The capital: where nearly everyone lands and where nearly everyone leaves the same day. It has the National Theatre, the Gold and Jade museums, the Mercado Central, and neighbourhoods like Amón and Escalante that are worth walking. It's not a postcard city, but it's where you see how the country actually lives.

2 days

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