I arrived in Costa Rica at the San Jose airport at 2:00. While I was flying in, I could just barely see out the window because I had an aisle seat. But I did see TONS of mountains from the air. They are everywhere, and they are huge. They are nothing like the Appalachians, they begin much more abruptly and are covered in jungle. Other than that, and the jungle that covers everything, it looks very much like the United States from the air. I did see a shanty town, or "slum" about a mile from the airport. The living conditions just looked very cramped and unsanitary.
