Costa Rica / Columbia backpacking

[Joseph Ainsworth]

Through a series of unfortunate events a trip that I had had planned for the Philippines fell through, so instead I'm headed down to San Jose Costa Rica on the 31st of this months. Spending 3 weeks there, and then headed down to Bogota Columbia. I'm looking for some shortish backpacking trips (3-4 days at most) to do down there. Am very open to traveling anywhere I need to go within a reasonable distance. Also anything else that needs to be seen while I'm there.
Also trying to figure out what to do food wise when going out? Do most people just take normal food, as I would assume bars and freeze food is next to impossible to find.
And what, in addition to a normal gear list, would you typically take for a month and a half trip? I'm assuming an extra pair of pants, an extra shirt, an extra pair of underwear, I'm not taking a computer, and probably not going to take a phone, but would be curious to see what else other might suggest.

[Kevin]

Corcovado National Park is really nice. When I went there I hiked into one of the ranger stations and stayed there for 5 days, just doing day hikes. I know there are a couple of other ranger stations within the park, so you could probably plan a trip to hike between them.

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