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Puntarenas
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Heat-stunned
PUNTARENAS
, 110km west of San Jose, has the look of raffish abandonment that haunts so many tropical port cities. What isn't rusting has long ago been bleached out to a generic pastel, and the town's cracked, potholed streets, shaded by mop-headed mango trees, are lined with old wooden buildings painted in faded tutti-frutti colours. Tourists come mainly to catch a lancha or ferry across to southern Nicoya - there's little to see or do in the town itself. Other useful information
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Costa Rica,
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