Puerto Viejo de Talamanca

We crossed the whole country of Costa Rica from the Pacific Ocean to the Carribean Sea on the day. We managed to arrive by 6.30 pm in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, a rasta and surf town at the extreme north-east of the country.

Total change of environment over here : the population is mainly black, since the first inhabitants were former slaves from the West Indies (Jamaica...) that decided to settle in Costa Rica to fish for sea turtles.


Here is a view of our hostel, owned by a former hardcore surfer from the Netherlands, and where obviously plenty of surfers are staying :

So what´s the difference between the Pacific coast and the Carribean coast ?
At the first sight, there are much more palmtrees and coconut trees than in Montezuma...




And how is the surfing over there ?
That´s how it looks from far away...


And that´s the way Rasta-man does it !


After a fair bit of walking and cruiser-cycling (on these cool ¨cruiser¨bikes that come from California)...

.. we made it to Punta Uva, another great beach surrounded by the jungle :


You might say, that´s a bit too much of beaches, what about culture ?
That will be the point of our next day, since we are heading to Cahuita National Park...