We provide useful information to help you make the most of your time and money in Costa Rica. Try to get around the country without back-tracking. You can easily make a circular route around the country starting from the capital, San Jose, and save your tours out of San Jose for the last. Rain forests occur from the beaches up to where the air gets cool in the mountains and that s where the Cloud forests begin. Each forest, volcano, beach, and town is distinct - but they have a lot in common as well.
Rain forests vary from one another.
Guanacaste and Nicoya have dry forests that have no comparison. You can change dollars and travellers checks almost anywhere. It s best to change at the airport, your hotel, banks, never on the street. We use to express colones, the national currency. So, for the tourists travelling light, the bus from the airport to San Jose costs 135 or about 50 US cents.