It's only 10 miles between La Fortuna and Monteverde, but the route on the road took us 85 miles and 6.5 hours. There were several reasons for this. You might want to read about our Santa Elena Bike Crash for more.

Later, after turning off towards La Fortuna, there's a little ridge (about 3500 feet) that we needed to cross. The road was really fun, I scraped the boxes a little and generally enjoyed the curves. It was cool to look around and see the coffee plantations.