Puerto Viejo

4 hours by car.
After I left this incredible province of Bocas del Toro I made my way up north to Costa Rica. The boat brought me back to Almirante where I was convinced to take a direct shuttle to Puerto Viejo for 15 dollars. Public buses were about 6 dollars but would take way more than 4 hours. I might had made the right decision to go by shuttle. My shuttle was full with girls. 3 girls from Israel and 5 from Madrid. Everyone treated me very nice and we had a nice journey to Puerto Viejo.
Somehow we all weren’t prepared to cross the border. At the Costa Rican side they told us to fill out a medical form and upload our health insurance. We had to be covered for medical treat and higher than $US 50k as well as quarantine accommodations had to be covered by $US 2k. My certificate that I recently recovered from Covid-19 was worth nothing. Most of us had to buy some additional health insurance at the border to please the health departments mind. Sure thing it was all about making business, whatsoever I didn’t give a thinker’s damn about it.

7 hours later we arrived in Puerto Viejo where the 5 Spanish cousins and I checked into the same hostel. We all went for winner and had a nice time.Read more