One small stop on our whirlwind double decker bus tour of San Jose, Costa Rica was to the “National Monument” in a park in the middle of the city.  The monument (a statue, actually) depicts the central american countries (shown as women) driving out the conqueror William Walker.  The victory over Walker is considered a point of national pride and is celebrated as a national holiday on April 11.

After spending a few minutes checking out the sculpture and the park, we headed a few blocks down the street to the indoor market.  It’s a square a super hard to get lost apparently, but I was leading the way and promptly got us completely lost. I’m still not sure how something that’s a square can have so many corner exits… but we finally found it.