However, we soon located the Muroto Shopping Plaza Ocean that the people in last night's lodge had told us about. It was a large one story building with a parking lot around it. We entered and near the door found a bread shop that had a special morning Viking (all you can eat for a fix price). There was freshly baked bread and rolls, salad, fruit, miso soup, etc, but most important was the endless cup of coffee. We stayed, drinking coffee and eating until the special service ended. At that point one of the waitresses came over and said that we could take more free coffee from the counter where they normally charged by the cup. So we stayed longer, a couple of cups worth of time. After this and the required trip to the bathroom, we started walking again. We first went to the nearest post office and I withdrew enough money for the rest of the trip. Then we headed off along the shore toward Temple #25.I should point out that since Temple #19, a 140 plus kilometers, we had been walking toward the southwest. Now, starting as we left Temple #24 we were walking northwest and would continue to do so until the end of our Pilgrimage.
After about thirty minutes of easy walking along the coast road, we reached the turn-off point for Temple #25. As usual, the temple was on the top of a mountain and the Henro path was just a rough trail as you can see in the next picture.
Once we climbed toward the top of the mountain we discovered a spot with a fantastic view back toward the town we left a few minutes before.
The Pilgrim path was pretty undeveloped in places, but it was not going to be too long or too high, so it did not bother us.
In those places, like the one in the next picture, where it was not very steep, it was a very pleasant, peaceful walk, especially since we were in no hurry and knew that the temple was very near.
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