2018 COSTA RICA DAY 9 In Moctezuma 01-19

We got up kind of late and had a good breakfast after an early morning swim. This was our first dip in the warm waters of the Costa Rican Pacific. After that we road our bikes on dirt roads out to the Absoluta Cabo Blanc National Park. The roads were starting to be a bit of a challenge to say the least. We went on a short two kilometer hike/walk through the rainforest there. Its hard to beat the Pacific Northwest when it comes to a rain forest and this one didn’t do it. It was interesting and lush but the best part of the day was really watching the brown pelicans dive bomb for fish. We did see two crittters: first a big iguana like lizard that crossed the road and later when we parked our bikes at the park we saw a ????? (Like a little bear sort of).

After leaving the park we went to Malpais via the most horrific roads known to man. Wendy fell four times on these stupid roads. When we arrived at Malpais we sat down for dinner as it was getting dark. We had a decent dinner in this very touristy town but the traffic was nuts. The red rental 4x4 ATV’s were around us like flies and they were all going too fast and were driven by people who had no idea what they were doing. Alas after I made a quick stop the ATM for some cash for the Samara hotel and then we headed home to Moctezuma in the dark again. I seem to recall that one significant piece of driving advice for Costa Rica was “DON’T DRIVE AT NIGHT”. We arrived at the hotel and basically passed out exhausted.