which way is the beach

we took a gruesome 6 hour drive out to the caribbean coast this weekend, to a town called puerto viejo. puerto viejo is completely rasta-ed out. everything is covered in red, yellow, and green and i was asked 15 times if i wanted to be given dred-locks.
our hostel was empty with the exception of two stained beds, a pipe sticking out of the wall as a shower, and some sort of red powder on the floor that mysteriously stained everything. none of that mattered to us though because the beachfront was right in our backyard!