| Costa Rica Mountain
biking can be a difficult
strenuous trip or a leisurely comfortable ride a day or a week. With its countless kilometers of
dirt roads and paths traversing a variety of terrain.
Costa Rica has enough mountain biking routes to keep a serious biker
rolling for years.
But you need
neither be an enthusiast nor willing to deal with the hassle of dragging a
bike along as luggage to enjoy the sport here.
Mountain bikes can be rented at most resort
towns, and several local companies offer mountain bike tours of the country's less visited
areas, many of which are mellow enough for people who haven't been on a bike
for years.
A good choice for
a day of pedaling or a week of pedaling is the Caribbean Coast. Almost all of the area is dirt
roads and paths winding through beaches, villages and up and down mountains.
You can stay on the coastal route for a more relaxed less strenuous bike
tour, or ride
high into the Talamanca mountains over rough terrain.
There are also
multiple-day mountain bike tours, which range from a two-day
exploration of the area around Cahuita and Puerto Viejo to a six-day tour of the entire
southern coastal area all the way to Panama.
Bikers who bring
their own wheels will find no shortage of routes in Costa Rica. The entire southern
Caribbean Coast,
which is crisscrossed by sparsely travelled dirt roads, is the perfect region
for mountain-bike touring, as are the southern Talamanca mountains.
The Cahuita
National Park has a great bike trail that runs along the coast, where you will come face to
face with snakes, lizards, Pacas, Agoutis, Green & Black Frogs, red
frogs,howler
monkeys, white faced monkeys, Iguanas, sloths and many different species of
birds and amphibians.
Stop in a quite
calm cove and take a dip in the crystal clear waters.
Ride out to the
point of Cahuita National Park and you can see 30 miles north to Limon and south to Punta
Uva.
Lock your bike up
and take a snorkeling trip out to the reef and see the hundreds of species of
coral and fish that make up the largest reefs south of Belize.
From there you can
bike south to Home Creek and then onto Puerto Viejo, Cockles, Punta Uva
and Manzanillo, where you can bike through the Manzanillo-Gandoca Wildlife Refuge.
There are miles of
roads and paths going up into the mountains, with some fabulous
views of the Caribbean.
From the village
of Manzanillo you
can head south through the refuge on small paths to the river estuaries,
where you will find a unique species of river dolphin, Caymans,
Crocodiles, monkeys, otters and other exotic wild life.
Cross the rivers
and go all the way to the Panamanian border.
A trip you will
always remember full of unique terrain, wildlife and people.Don’t forget your
camera and plenty of water.
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