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Moving on from La Fortuna
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Despite its small size, Fortuna is something of a
transport hub
, and with a little planning you can get from here to Guanacaste, Puntarenas, Monteverde and Puerto Viejo de SarapiquA without backtracking to San JosA©. For
Puerto Viejo de SarapiquA
, take a bus to
San Carlos
(6 daily; 1hr), where you can pick up a service east to Puerto Viejo. Buses currently leave San Carlos for Puerto Viejo at 6am, 10am and 3pm, but double-check these times, since if you miss your connection you'll need to stay the night. For
Monteverde
, there are two daily buses from Fortuna to
TilarA?n
, at the head of Laguna de Arenal (3hr). The bus currently leaves at 8am and 5pm - if you take the later one you'll have to stay the night in TilarA?n. You can connect in TilarA?n with the Santa Elena service (for the Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve), which currently leaves at 1pm (3-4hr). There are also frequent local services from TilarA?n to
CaA±as
and the Interamericana, where you can pick up buses north to
Liberia
and the beaches of
Guanacaste
, or south to
Puntarenas
. To get back to
San JosA©
from Fortuna, take the Garaje Barquero
directo
service (3 daily; 4hr 30min), which currently departs at 2.45pm, or head to San Carlos from where you can connect with hourly buses to the capital.
For those
driving
, the roads are good, with the exception of a perennially difficult patch between Fortuna and Arenal Town. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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