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E-book Title: Costa Rica By Bus
Author: John Wood
Book Description: Are you a budget traveler or do you simply want to avoid expensive car rental costs and deposits, high insurance deductibles on damages and theft, unmarked roads, huecos (potholes), the highest per-kilometer fatality rate on the planet, the risk of being hit by an uninsured driver, and the Great Adventure: being stranded in an isolated region far from a telephone and light years from a road repair service?
Relax! You have just made a great discovery, Costa Rica's best-kept secret: an extensive, inexpensive bus system that puts most "first-world" systems to shame. The system consists of many independent bus companies working together to link cities, towns, and small villages with beaches, parks, reserves, refuges, and other Central American nations.
The system consists of more than 300 private companies serving more than 500 routes, remarkable for a country the size of West Virginia, USA. Fares are low, about one US dollar per hour of travel. Road travel in this rugged, mountainous nation, "the Switzerland of Central America," is better measured in time than in distance. Apart from hiring a driver - an expensive alternative unless you share the cost with fellow travelers - bus travel is the best way to see the country, meet the Ticos and Ticas, and discover villages and vistas you will never find on your own.
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Reviewed by on 2008-05-01
My Rate 3
A fine resource, but there are free websites that give much of this info.
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