Drive from Liberia Airport

Bring along a map or rent a GPS (type in San Miguel or San Francisco – either will get you in the area); you can usually get one from the rental car agency. Leaving the airport, turn right onto the main highway (RT 21).

Follow 21 all the way to CARMONA. There are road signs along the way that will tell you how many kilometers to the next big town. Do not turn left in Santa Rita where the sign says 21 and goes to Playa Naragno. Just keep going straight instead.

Once you enter Carmona, turn right when you come to the park (town square). Go up the hill to the gas station (NOTE: This will be your last opportunity for quite some time to fill up with gas. Please also be aware that this gas station is closed on Sundays and after 6 pm. Be sure to fuel up at the Castrol on the Bridge road if it is Sunday or after 6pm)

After leaving the Carmona gas station, go back down the way you came 100 feet or so, and make a left, then a right, and then a quick left. This will be a dirt road. There is a new steel bridge with an old bridge right beside it that no one uses anymore. If you haven't crossed a steel bridge within 1 1/2 minutes you are on the wrong road. Return to the gas station and ask for directions.

NOTE: There are Coldwell Banker Realty signs at most of the intersections – sometimes they are down but these are good visual reminders along with signs to Punta Islita that you are on the right track.

After crossing the bridge, you will climb the first of two mountains. The road will split half-way up the mountain. They join up again at the summit, so either is fine, but we usually go left, along the path that appears more traveled. It's probably a easiest. At the top, just continue straight until you come to a "T" intersection, which is in a town called ZAPOTAL. Turn left. After you pass a small cow farm on the left you will come to a fork in the road with a sign that says BEJUCO (among other places). Go left (as the sign says), and soon you will be going down the mountain again.

At the bottom of the mountain you will stay on the same road until you come to an intersection in LA SOLEDAD. Follow the sign for BEJUCO, which tells you to go left again. From here you have roughly a half hour to go. Just continue over the mountain, and stay straight until you come to Pueblo Nuevo, where the road splits at the end of a soccer field. There is a bar on the left and a grocery store with a bar. Continue along straight (there are no right turns on the dirt road). After you have passed the mill and two homes on the left you will curve to the left and continue over a small concrete bridge. Keep going about 3/4 of a kilometer. You will pass between beautiful cow pastures and then you will cross another smaller bridge.

Continue along the same road up one last hill (which is small, but steep!), and head down again. Continue along the road to San Francisco. There will be a small grocery / bar on the right where there is a T like intersection – bear right and follow the signs to Caletas. There will be another T intersection just beyond a bridge. Go right. Just before the entrance to Caletas bear left and Punta Dakota is the first property on the right.

Welcome Home!

Leave the city on route 1, the Central American Highway. This is the same road that connects the airport in Alejuela to the city of San José. Pass the airport, following signs to Guanacaste, Nicaragua, Liberia, or San Ramon. After about 2 hours on this road (depending on traffic) you will come to an intersection with signs for Nicoya and the "Taiwan Friendship Bridge" (Puente de Amistad Taiwan). This is a left turn (Note: there is a shell gas station on the corner). Should you miss this turn and find yourself in Liberia, you make a left at the one and only traffic light, and stay on that road until you get to Carmona, at which point you can continue as directed below. If you make the turn for the bridge, stay on this road for about 40 minutes. Cross the bridge until you end up at a "T" intersection marked RT. 21. Turn left and go straight down this road to CARMONA.

After leaving the Carmona gas station, go back down the way you came 100 feet or so, and make a left, then a right, and then a quick left. This will be a dirt road. There is a new steel bridge with an old bridge right beside it that no one uses anymore. If you haven't crossed a steel bridge within 1 1/2 minutes you are on the wrong road. Return to the gas station and ask for directions.

NOTE: There are Coldwell Banker Realty signs at most of the intersections – sometimes they are down but these are good visual reminders along with signs to Punta Islita that you are on the right track.

After crossing the bridge, you will climb the first of two mountains. The road will split half-way up the mountain. They join up again at the summit, so either is fine, but we usually go left, along the path that appears more traveled. It's probably a easiest. At the top, just continue straight until you come to a "T" intersection, which is in a town called ZAPOTAL. Turn left. After you pass a small cow farm on the left you will come to a fork in the road with a sign that says BEJUCO (among other places). Go left (as the sign says), and soon you will be going down the mountain again.

At the bottom of the mountain you will stay on the same road until you come to an intersection in LA SOLEDAD. Follow the sign for BEJUCO, which tells you to go left again. From here you have roughly a half hour to go. Just continue over the mountain, and stay straight until you come to Pueblo Nuevo, where the road splits at the end of a soccer field. There is a bar on the left and a grocery store with a bar. Continue along straight (there are no right turns on the dirt road). After you have passed the mill and two homes on the left you will curve to the left and continue over a small concrete bridge. Keep going about 3/4 of a kilometer. You will pass between beautiful cow pastures and then you will cross another smaller bridge.

Continue along the same road up one last hill (which is small, but steep!), and head down again. Continue along the road to San Francisco. There will be a small grocery / bar on the right where there is a T like intersection – bear right and follow the signs to Caletas. There will be another T intersection just beyond a bridge. Go right. Just before the entrance to Caletas bear left and Punta Dakota is the first property on the right.

Welcome Home!