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Extract from the Sarch Travel Guides:
Touted as the centre of Costa Rican arts and crafts, especially
furniture making
, the village of
SARCH
, 30km northwest of Alajuela, is a commercialized place - firmly on the tourist trail but without much charm. Its setting is pretty enough, between precipitous verdant hills, but don't come expecting to see picturesque scenes of craftsmen sitting in small historic shops: the work is done in factories. The
Sarch ox-cart
is a kaleidoscopically coloured, painted square cart meant to be hauled by a single ox or team of two oxen. Moorish in origin, the designs can be traced back to immigrants from the S...
read the whole Sarch Travel Guides...
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