67.5km – 397m up – 688m down – 2476kcal
We left our hotel in La Cruz, above the scenic bay at the Pacific Ocean to get to our 2nd country: Nicaragua.
Monkeys, raccoons and guinea pigs joint us at our breakfast restaurant …
A nice downhill brought us closer to the border. Crossing into Nicaragua was easy: Pay 1$ to leave Costa Rica + pay another 12$ to get the Nicaraguan visa … in we are …
The route led us along the Pan Americana on the western banks of Lake Nicaragua with its two volcanoes ‘Conception’ and ‘Madera’ located on an island in the lake.
At La Virgen we turned left towards San Juan del Sur at the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures were already up into the 30°C when we arrived at our hotel right at the beach.
We let the day finish with a well deserved calpirinha for a sun downer.
Tomorrow we are going to turn back to Lake Nicaragua for our rest day in Granada.
