1996 November and December
640 km by bike
Our second trip to
Costa Rica involved more cycling than the first. Some of the highlights
were getting stranded in El Salvador... twice, Monteverde Cloud forest
reserve, Playa Hermosa, the fishing boat rescue when we got lost on the
monkey trail, and Palo Verde National Park.
This trip started
with an unexpected detour to El Salvador. Although our tickets didn't
mention it, there was a scheduled stopover in San Salvador. The real suprise
was that we were still there three days later. The 767 that we were traveling
in blew a tire while landing, and the tire store in San Salvador doesn't
carry that size.
Within an hour of landing the airline figured out that they wouldn't be
able to get a new tire until a flight came in the next morning from Mexico
City. They gave us the option of waiting to see if we could get on a late-night
flight on another airline, or a night in a hotel in the capitol. Since
we had several weeks to travel, we decided to check out San Salvador.
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riding down the hill from Monteverde towards Juntas and Canas
