So many people!

While only about a third of the population of Costa Rica live in the metropolitan area of San Jose it seemed as if all 1.5 million of them were waking along Central Avenue when we ventured out on Friday morning - it was a bit of a shock to the system.

After dealing with a few essentials, we signed up for a walking tour of the city for a couple of hours. Our guide Steven was a very personable chap who claimed to speak 7 languages fluently and led us on an interesting walk around a number of different parts of the city- thankfully away from the crowds for most of the time.

Along the way we stopped outside the Legislative Assembly and were amused by some of the protest murals painted on the walls facing the building. The first one depicts the president and his apparent interest in drugs, crime and all sorts of other unpleasant things

 While the second appears to be an indictment of the members of the assembly