Rach had done a bit of reading around Costa Rica, but I'd not done any. So that was my chore for the morning after which we planned a route through the country taking in the places we both wanted to see. This plan meant we had to leave Puerto Viejo today & get across (via Puerto Limon) to Tortuguero. We left shortly after lunchtime, thinking the bus journey was about 1-1.5 hours, only to find it was 3 hours! When we arrived, a tour guide offered us a taxi rid...

Our first hot shower in almost a week was fantastic. (That doesn't mean we weren't showering, we'd just had only cold showers for a while!). We then decided after breakfast to hire bikes & ride down to Manzanilla beach that had been recommended to us. It turns out, it wasn't our best plan ever! The beach was over 13km away & in 30+ degrees on old bikes with no gears, it took quite a while & resulted in our skin leaking by the bucket load!! And to rub ...