We’ve spent the last 10 days in Puerto Viejo, a chilled beach town in Costa Rica. The beaches in town aren’t great and it takes some effort to get to the best ones. Luckily the journey is part of the fun as you can rent bikes for $5 a day and cycle an hour along flat road to get here, Punta Uva beach. It’s a beautiful ride through rainforest, with little traffic and the lush green landscape reminded me of Bali – very Eat Pray Love.
Photo of the Week: Punta Uva Beach, Costa Rica
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Oh I miss that beach… it is still my favorite one so far. I love that you mention Eat Pray Love because as soon as we (me & the girls) got our bikes I said “This is very Eat Pray Love & shit”… ahhh good times!!!
Haha! That’s funny you thought of Eat Pray Love too.
The journey is definitely the best part!
Oh how I miss Costa Rica!!!!! What a serene photo!
Great photo
How nice is it cycling through Puerto Viejo and around? Agree with the Eat Pray Love reference!
It is such a great place to cycle. And it’s flat so it’s very easy!
I was browsing through photos of beaches on google for a project I’m working on. When I saw this one, a bell went off in my head, and I thought, “I know this place…!” Sure enough, I do. I used to live in Costa Rica when I was a kid (in the early 80s), and Puerto Viejo was a place that my family would frequent.
We’d drive to the bridge over the river and jump in… then we’d swim towards the ocean, and end up at that very beach. The photo looks the same as I remember it 30 years ago. I really miss Costa Rica.
That’s very cool! I remember the river that led to the sea.
Punta Uva and cycling there was one of my favorite too