It's really laid back mon!
Trip Start
Jun 23, 2009
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Trip End
Oct 19, 2009
Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica
Friday, July 24, 2009
We head out of San Jose on the 32 climbing steadily and it starts to rain more persistantly so we stop for waterproofs. As we climb higher we get into te clouds again and visibility reduces drastically. It's a single carriageway road with an extra lane for uphill and the road is packed with slow moving lorries either braking hard with the smell of burning brakes on hte downhill or struggling, belching black smoke on the uphill.
Signs of minor landslides here and there, but this is really is jungle as you would imagine it. I'm just waiting for the gorillasin the mist! Sorry wrong country!!
We come up behind a long queue of traffic and wend our way to the front as you d on a bike. A tree has fallen across the road and a lorry driver is organising a chain to dag it out of the way.
They move it a bit and there is a gap so we're through and off. We cross river bridges, the size of some of the boulders in the river bed is amazing, there must have been some huge flows at some time.
As we come down again the forest gives way to clearings, some cattle farms and small banana crops.
On the coastal plain after Siqurres we start to see large banana plantations, Del Monte and Chiquitos and huge sites stacked with container, presumably for the banana harvest.
At Puerto Limon a small container port with just two crane, we see the Caribbean. I think they will be really busy if they are going to clear all the containers we saw.
Then we come across a horrendous truck crash with another monster tailback, again we manage to squeeze through.
Puerto Limon looked a typical working port, a little onthe seedy side.
We skirt the Caribbean coast heading for Cahuita a sleepy beach village. The people here are of Afro Caribbean origin, it's quite strange you get Rasta Spanish, a hey mon and then they launch into Spanish, though English is used as well.
