Sunday, January 29, 2006
Mercado Central - San Jose, Costa Rica
I enjoy the markets of Costa Rica (and Mexico too) much more than our Canadian shopping malls. The Central Market in San Jose has inexpensive t-shirts, fresh meats, fish, poultry, vegatables, spices, flowers, some souvenir shops and lots of places to eat!
Here are some of the places to enjoy a full meal or a snack!
Our family was buying last minute soiuvenirs before returning to Canada - the kids wanted more T-Shirts, the adults inexpensive souvenirs.
Mercado Central is a full San Jose city block in size with entrances at every corner plus along the sides. Many of the outer store had separate entrances off of the streets. Once you got inside it was difficult to figure out where you were in relation to the streets, but it did not really matter as there was plenty to see and lots of interesting goods and busy shopkeepers.
Despite warnings about pickpockets in most of the guide books, we saw nothing of concern and felt as safe or safer than in a North American city - in spite of being obvious as tourists!
Here are some of the places to enjoy a full meal or a snack!
Our family was buying last minute soiuvenirs before returning to Canada - the kids wanted more T-Shirts, the adults inexpensive souvenirs.
Mercado Central is a full San Jose city block in size with entrances at every corner plus along the sides. Many of the outer store had separate entrances off of the streets. Once you got inside it was difficult to figure out where you were in relation to the streets, but it did not really matter as there was plenty to see and lots of interesting goods and busy shopkeepers.
Despite warnings about pickpockets in most of the guide books, we saw nothing of concern and felt as safe or safer than in a North American city - in spite of being obvious as tourists!
# posted by Costa Rica Vacation @ 1:23 PM 
