[in48092]

I wnet with some friends a couple years ago. get out of the San Jose as soon as possible (unless hookers are your thing. Dont make the mistake of basing there and day tripping. Also, it's true the country is fairly small, but the roads are laughably bad, so travel by land takes forever. If youre only there for a week, i'd pick a couple places and ralax.

Definately go white water rafting. We paid some compay like $80 or something for a day long rafting excursion. I'd never rafted before. they brought us to a river, let us practice in calm water for a few minutes and then gave us a guide in our boat and threw us in the river. some level 4 rapids. a little dicey, but fun stuff. cant recomend it enough.

I was there for a couple weeks, did 2 days at volcanos, 2 days in Montaverde? ziplining and the like, then just headed for the coast. There are some really nice beaches on the pacific coast. if you want to party with lots of foreigners go to tamarindo, if you want a more isolated relaxed scene go farther down the coast.