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EX500rider

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8. If you ever do Colombia..
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 05:08 PM
Mar 2018

....Cartagena is on the coast, too hot and muggy and the cruise ships go there so it's been ruined....Bogota is too high/cold at 10,000 ft and too big at 6 million....Medellin is at 5,000ft, 72f avg year round temp and the tourists are afraid of the ghost of Pablo Escobar so they don't go there as much. My 15 story hotel there is $26 a night.

Costa Rica....if you want to avoid the tourists go down to the southern Osa Peninsula in the SW, all the tourists do the Nicoya Peninsula.

The Monte Verde rain forest is pretty, all the volcano's are cool, the bridge with all the crocs is Rio Tarcoles on the west coast.
and not a lot of tourists do Mt Chirripo in the south, on a clear day you can see both oceans.

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