punta uva: point grape
I got curious about what “uva” was in spanish and it turns out to be “grape”. No wonder I like this place so much, it is named after that fabulous fruit that provides my elixir, vino tinto ☺.
My remaining days in punta uva were as lovely as the first. There were some nice folks staying in the other houses and roberto, of fort collins CO, gave me a lift on his scooter to manzanillo, the beach town at the end of the road (quite literally) along CRs carib coast. We had the mandatory beer at maxi’s restaurant, a manzanillo institution.
Manzanillo, tho with a nice beach and what I hear is some nice snorkling, is not much than that and I’m not sure I’d want to stay here long. Plus, the bike ride all along the stretch from puerto viejo (north) and manzanillo (south) is just lovely. Punta uva is about smack dab between those. If you do visit punta uva the short hike out to the point is really cool. Go past the punta uva beach bar and restaurant (which serves some yummy food) and find the trail. There are some earthen “stairs” that lead to a trail and it’s easy to find your way out to the rock point.
The next day I borrowed a bike from the casa and rode to playa cocles, a little closer to puerto viejo. This is a surfer beach but all along this stretch of coast there were these tucked-away little public accesses that lead to deserted beaches. Usually you’d just see a path into the jungle from the road and a sign reading “playa glardonada con la bandera azul ecologica”.
After 3 days in punta uva I left to spend a night in puerto viejo de talamanca before heading to panama. Puerto viejo is known as the party town along this coast so I was a bit curious to see more. I’d stopped there to grocery shop before heading to punta uva and it seemed pretty laid back.
Tags: central america, costa rica, Travel
Peggy Rehm