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No one wants to start their adventure thinking about the end, but here are a few tips for that segment of your trip.

Stay in Alajuela, rather than in San Jose is you are flying out of San Jose International Airport. You will be much closer, and Alajuela is a much smaller town to navigate.
Have a detailed map of San Jose if you need to navigate around it to get to Alajuela. As with Cartago, street signs are scarce, highway signs confusing.
Be prepared to pay an exit tax at the airport. As of May, 2007, it was $26USD.
Leave time to visit WORLD OF SNAKES in nearby Grecia before you go! All those Fer-de-Lance you managed to avoid in the jungle you can now look eye-to-eye with through the safety of glass!

No one wants to start their adventure thinking about the end, but here are a few tips for that segment of your trip. Stay in Alajuela, rather than in San Jose is you are flying out of San Jose International Airport. You will be much closer, and Alajuela is a much smaller town to navigate. Have a detailed map of San Jose if you need to navigate around it to get to Alajuela. As with Cartago, street signs are scarce, highway signs confusing. Be prepared to pay an exit tax at the airport. As of May, 2007, it was $26USD. Leave time to visit WORLD OF SNAKES in nearby Grecia before you go! All those Fer-de-Lance you managed to avoid in the jungle you can now look eye-to-eye with through the safety of glass!

	(Photo from World of Snakes site)