More on San Jose

Interesting city, like any other big city. I went to the National Museum. Pre-Colombian artifacts and pottery. Big carved circular stone spheres. Big, like, around 4 feet in diameter. Another section showed the cultural progression of Costa Rica. I kinda glazed over the exhibit. Basically Spaniards killed the locals, stole the gold, made the survivors into slaves, imported more slaves from Africa and now they have a mixed cultures. Another part of the museum was a gold museum. Unimpressive after Colombia. Interesting part was that the figurines were of animals in the area instead of just decorative designs. Animals like turtles, scorpions, deer, alligators, monkeys, etc. There was also a butterfly garden.

I then went to the Gold Museum, which was about the same price, $6 USD, and had the same things as the National Museum but you couldn’t take pictures at the Gold Museum.

I also bought a 256 memory card so I can take 700+ pictures. Crazy.