San Pedro to Santiago

From San Pedro very nice new road, but steep. On the way is entrance to the volcano San Pedro. Then you get to the top, where are a lot of corn fields and thats really nice ... last ľkm before Santiago go steep down and the road is bad - really light sand like ash, you need good wide mountainbike tires to be able to go down comfortabely. Then unpaved road a little bit more and again paved to Santiago. They say is dangerous because of robberies, but we asked and during the day it shoudl be OK. Definitely is OK on the paved part. Even police car passes couple of times per day.