18/01/15 La Fortuna to Atlantida

Early morning start again for us, at least riding was easy to begin with, tending downhill from La Fortuna to El Tanque. The route we travelled passed through farmlands of papaya, pineapple, sugarcane, plantains, bananas and Yuca (cassava root). We rode at the rear of the group today keeping Moya company. Paul (Mechanic) stopped us to show us a tree full of Iguanas, while we were looking at these he spotted a Sloth with gave us a good show, slow but good. He had also spotted some Toucans earlier. We regrouped with the others at our fruit break. After 25 miles we jumped in the bus for 2 hours, we stopped for our lunch break at a cafeteria style restaurant at the Rio Frio junction then it was back on the bus for 2 more hours, heading towards Puerto Limon. Just south of Puerto Limon at the start of the Santa Rosa- Bomba back road we offloaded the bikes to ride 28 miles following the coast, it was quite flat. The only break we had was to watch the Howler Monkey's that we thought were Sloths at first. A bit further down the road some monkeys were throwing fruit at us, they missed.  At the turn off to our accommodation at Atlantida Roberto was giving us final instructions to our hotel, we heard a bit of commotion across the road, an old drunk man had fallen into a deep culvert, so we went to fish him out and retrieve his shoes. We arrived at our accommodation on the Caribbean coast, next door there was a very hot soccer game going on.  Paul enjoyed a couple of Imperial beers by the pool and read a bit, then we walked to beach.
Dinner was down the road a nice seafood restaurant. This is the poorest region of Costa Rica.