As I said before, many, if not most, of the small neighboring towns also have farmers markets. The next town north of Tamarindo is Villa Real (pronounced via re al). Since these small towns are selling their produce to locals instead of tourists, we thought the prices might be cheaper. So we decided to go to Villa Real and check it out.
The farmers market in Villa Real is on Friday and you have to take a bus. We were not sure of the bus schedule but we thought there was one going that way at nine o'clock.
The bus stop is only a block away and the buses come very frequently. I think next time we will try to catch an early bus. The local buses here are very nice.
It cost us two dollars each for the ride. If they had air conditioning they did not use it. We rode with the door and windows open. It took about fifteen minutes to get there only because we had to stop several times to let people get on and off. They dropped us off at the corner and we had to walk about a block to the market.
As you can see, the farmers market at Villa Real is much smaller than the one in Tamarindo. It has only fruits and vegetables but they are wonderful.
Gail loves her green beans.
Pineapples were $1 each.
And we found Guanabana!!!!
We headed back to our corner to wait for the bus.
While we were waiting for the bus, a taxi came along and Gail negotiated a ride home, right to our front door for $2.
When we got home we had spent $16 (plus the cost of our ride) and had all kinds of stuff including one nice Guanabana (that cost $8). I looked up on U Tube how to cut it up, clean it, and get the seeds out.
It was quite the ordeal but we have a large bowl of the meat of the fruit and also froze some for smoothies.
We will definitely go back. It seemed the prices were indeed quite a bit lower although all you can get is fruit and vegetables.
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