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aweee! Kathy what did you put on this cake? we're trying not to eat sugar or dairy
didn't you read the sign?
What sign?!
welcome to our unexpected things series today we're gonna talk to you about
Costa Rica we fell in love with the beauty of Costa Rica but there were some
things about it that we didn't expect when we went there and today we're gonna
share them with you
well the first thing that we didn't expect was how
expensive Costa Rica would be although it's completely worth it to go to this
country we found it on par with going to places such as places like Hawaii which
is really expensive but you actually can't find budget options things like cheaper hotels
hostels taking public transit and if you're not gonna go on tours you'll
obviously save money but if that's not your thing be prepared to pay North
American prices another thing we found that was is less expensive as well was
eating at the sodas of the local places these are local restaurants that they
call sodas not the pop meals cost between four and seven dollars a plate
which is really reasonable and the food is so amazing
the second unexpected thing is driving
times hello? hey
it can take you a lot longer to get somewhere then in North America
there's a lot of unpaved roads windy roads and it can take much longer than
you expect yeah on average on the highway you go about sixty kilometers an
hour and then on rural roads they're like long windy bumpy unpaved roads and you
can get stuck behind large trucks and even cattle and it slows you up even more
to give you an example it's about 132 kilometers from San Jose
to Arenal which you think would take about an hour an hour and a half it
takes about three to three and a half hours when we went it actually took us
seven hours because we got lost because we used the wrong app and we were there
Apple Maps did not work at all and then Google Maps worked but it would always
take us in the wrong direction if we missed a turn and it was really easy to
miss a turn well we we're almost there but we got another 60
kilometers to go 60 km's gonna take an hour and a bit this will be interesting... 2 hours
so we later found out that Waze is the app to use there and that's what all
the Costa Ricans or most of the Costa Ricans use from what I hear
all right the third unexpected thing is when you're visiting beaches and national parks or
anything like that there will be these guys in these parking lots that come up to you and
say they want to fee they ask for money and you don't really know why but
they're there to look after your car so there's a lot of theft in Costa Rica so
these guys say they're watching your car not a big deal it only costs a couple
hundred colons so that's about forty five cents so no worries there yeah and
just don't leave your valuables in your car and you'll be good
the fourth unexpected thing is it was really difficult to find decaffeinated coffee
our friend doesn't drink caffeinated coffee and we looked everywhere and it
was super hard to find Hey yeah and the Costa Ricans this is one of
their major exports and they take their coffee seriously there so
decaffeinated coffee to them is like a sin it's like it's a religion there and
hey we're kind of like that I totally agree I understand as we found out when
I went to look for decaffeinated coffee for our friend it was nearly impossible
to actually communicate with them because I don't speak Spanish and I
wasn't saying the right thing decaffeinato cafe negro decaffeinato
puro puro puro puro is it decaffeinato si cafe negro no decaffeinated no caffeine no no caffeine
coffee but decaffeinato si caffeine I don't know
nope
the fifth unexpected thing is the scorpions there they glow at night under
the moonlight and they glow under black light this is pretty amazing it was so cool I
guess the glow comes from a coating in their exoskeleton and it creates this
glow and this hue and apparently it protects them from sunlight we thought
this was awesome we didn't know that yeah and another thing is that the
scorpions there aren't deadly their sting is more like just a bit worse than
getting a wasp sting which is pretty bad in itself but you don't have to worry about
dying from getting a scorpion sting and then they don't come out and sting you
that you're doing it in self-defense and the more nocturnal anyways I know we
were terrified of scorpions the whole time we even ran away from them it was
really good to find that out after the six unexpected thing is that night walks
are super cool this is where we found out about the glowing scorpion and it
was so much fun who would of thought this would have been fun this is pretty cool why are
we seeking out things that we don't like I don't know and paying money
paying money to see bugs we unexpectedly had so much fun and the forest just comes alive
at night it's like it's breathing and you can hear the insects and birds and animals I
don't know it was it was crazy it felt like it was breathing and we're not used to this
we're from Canada and the only thing at night is like crickets and
wolves and owls it's just normally really quiet you don't feel like you're in danger I know and this
is an activity you totally have to do we saw snakes we saw tarantula we saw
all these kinds of bugs sleeping birds and it was really really fun yeah and
then we had hooded jackets we have to put them on top of our head because we didn't want
things falling on our head oh I got my hoody on
because I really don't want something like a spider dropping on my head
we were chicken that way yeah at least that night we were
we're totally chicken we're always chicken if you watch our videos
alright the final one number seven right is that when you go to the airports
there's a a special departure tax to leave the country I know it was $29 u.s.
and it wasn't included in our ticket no it wasn't and there's there's special
counters at each of the airports and there's usually a long line up to get in
and they do take credit cards but they will charge you an extra 10 u.s. dollars
guys so I recommend bringing cash and that's the last one
hopefully we helped you up and you won't have any surprises at least not any bad ones
on your trip to Costa Rica
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