Costa Rica by Bus is available in paperback or as a PDF download. Costa Rica by Bus, the insider"s guide to budget travel, is the only travel guide that gives you complete, up-to-date information about Costa Rica"s extensive, inexpensive public transportation system, a system that can take you almost anywhere in this remarkably beautiful country, border to border and coast to coast at minimal cost. The system consists of more than 550 routes served by more than 350 privately owned bus companies that work together to provide reliable service to cities, towns, and tourist destinations. The guide contains information about routes, schedules, fares, and where to find your bus. Moreover, it gives many travel tips based on the experiences of the author, a Costa Rica resident who rides the bus. It also includes information about international bus connections to and from Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico and domestic air connections via Sansa and Nature Air. And, to help you communicate with the Ticos as you travel, the guide contains a traveler"s glossary.. This 200-page guide is concise, complete, and organized in a manner to help you quickly find the information you are looking for. It is the ideal companion to other guides, many of which assume that you will rent a car and drive, an alternative the author does not recommend.