Day 4 - Drive to Montezuma

In the morning we had our "breakfast" delivered to our room and were disappointed to see that it only consisted of a few pieces of toast with jam and some coffee. We loaded the car and found that another of the hotel's guests were also heading to Puntarenas to catch the ferry to Mal Pais. We left Jaco at about 10am and arrived at the Puntarenas ferry launch at 11:30 right behind the other guest we met from the hotel. Also behind us was Luis, one of the drivers from Orquedias Inn, that had taken us to the airport on a few previous visits. He was taking some surfers to Mal Pais and we talked with him for a bit as we had an hour to kill before they started loading the ferry. While waiting we got some beers and some tasty chicken kebabs($1.50 each) from a street vendor.


The ferry arrived at 12:30 and I went to get our tickets. All the cars and passengers were quickly loaded and we were on our way by 1pm.









Once in Paquera it took a bit to get off the ferry as we were towards the back. Once on the road it was a smooth drive to Cobano where we took the dirt road turn off to montezuma

Arriving in Montezuma, we found the town was packed - we were fortunate to get the last room at El Jardin which is probably the nicest hotel in town - with a pool but the rooms are pretty dark with crappy lighting (seems that everywhere in CR is switching to the fluorescent light bulbs). We were looking forward to getting something to eat at El Parque but were disappointed to find that it was no longer there and instead settled on a late lunch at Cafe Mocezuma. Next was a refreshing dip in the hotel pool. Later we spent the beginning of of the evening at Chico's bar alternating between beers and shots of guaro. At about 9pm we were a little drunk and hungry and Pizza Net right next door was looking pretty tempting so we stumbled over there for a delicious pizza and then back to our hotel and to bed