Sign up for a four-hour mountain bike trip with Bike Arenal and you’ll soon be heading up and down a rolling dirt road lined with orchids and tropical birds. You’ll pass a small village where cows lounge in the shade of palm trees and kids scream

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Sign up for a four-hour mountain bike trip with Bike Arenal and you’ll soon be heading up and down a rolling dirt road lined with orchids and tropical birds. You’ll pass a small village where cows lounge in the shade of palm trees and kids scream out “Hola,” before arriving at Lake Arenal, a 25-mile long manmade body of water. The waterfront is surprisingly undeveloped with massive fig trees lining the shore and the jagged peaks of the cloud forest off in the distance. You’ll stop for a break at a raging river and eat fresh pineapple without the slightest hint of acidity, and then pedal through papaya fields to try and find the unmistakable yellow beak of a toucan.

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