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Costa Rica Shopping
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Costa Rica is not known for boutique-lined avenues
and extensive shopping like other Latin American countries.
So, if you’re used to doing serious shopping while you’re
traveling, don’t expect to do so here. Instead, opt to
go home with local craft souvenirs and bags of the prized local
product, coffee. At about USD $3 a pound, it is the ideal souvenir
to bring back home for friends, family, and of course, yourself.
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Café Brit is one of the more popular brands, and can be
found in grocery stores, hotel gift shops and in a number of coffee
shops located within the airport. Café Brit also produces
coffee-based chocolate products, and these, too, can be found wherever
coffee is sold.
In San Jose, Avenida Central, just west of the Plaza de la Cultura,
is a pedestrian-only street mall where you can find inexpensive
clothes for men, women and children. You can also purchase hammocks,
t-shirts and some handicrafts. Coffee beans here are sold considerably
cheaper than in the souvenir shops.
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