Breakfast Bar

Seems a staple of every meal is rice and beans. Ive had it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.p

We just met up with Vivaci as they were entering the pre-columbian gold museum.

Juan Carlos, our guide

Juan Carlos and Oscar were our two guides and seemed to know a lot about everywhere we went.

Gold Musem

Our first stop as a grup was the pre-combbian gold exhibit in San Jose.

The building was constructed as an upside down pyramd with the bottom of the pyramid a park right next to the National Theater. The original plns were for an above ground building, but once they were able to see the side of the theater, it was decided to go underground.

They would use bees wax to create a shape, then cover it with clay. The clay would be heated so the wax would melt. They would then fill it with an alloy of gold and copper.

the alloy of gold and cooper was created to lower the melting temprature. It also saved much of the gold from the spanish as iwas deemed substandard and not of value to them.