Day 157 - Bounced!

Montezuma to Playa del Coco

We were moving on to Playa del Coco in the Guanacaste area of Costa Rica, so we decided to go via Tamarindo for lunch. We put the destination into Google maps and started following the route it suggested. The road was in pretty bad shape, worse than the one we were on yesterday, we had to cross a few creeks along the way, so we were pleased we had hired a 4WD. It took us almost two hours to reach a sealed road, and we'd only covered about 60km by then.

It's deeper than it looks!

We arrived at Tamarindo around lunch time, we were a bit surprised to see that it larger and busy compared to the more laid back places we'd been in, and it was also very hot. We wanted to have lunch near the water so we walked down to the beach and found a place, but after waiting a while for someone to take our order we gave up and moved on. We tried to get back to the main road through an expensive and pretentious looking hotel complex, we were having trouble finding a route between the buildings when a security guard decided to stop us. We walked back and tried another way, we were almost at the front of the building when the same guard stopped us again, he wasn't going to let us through! He called for backup on his radio so we headed back to the beach - another first for us this holiday, we have been thrown out of somewhere, and it was really quite petty as we were so close we could see the road and what harm were we doing?

We gave up on the beach lunch, M settled for an ice cream while K bought a chicken skewer from a roadside stand. We resumed our journey, with not the best impression of Tamarindo, we're glad we didn't stay there.

We arrived at our airbnb a couple of kms from Playa del Coco, then drove into town. The place was much more to our liking, it seemed pretty casual, lots of fun places for happy hour and a nice beach as well.