Just out of Cucao this morning four young guys squeezed inside a small, white, hatchback pulled up next to us. The driver wound down his window and asked: "Do you speak English?" "Yea" "Was that the National Park back there?" "Yea" "What, just the beach and stuff?" "Yep, you can walk for 20kms North and South and it won´t change". I actually got this last on the authority of a British couple we´d had dinner with last night. I hadn´t walked it myself. "That´s a disappointment then" he said, wound up his window and drove off back to the highway. I sat there for a moment longer, digesting his last comment, and thought to myself yea, that´s a pretty good summary of Cucao and climbed back on the bike for the two and a half hour
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