Blogs from Arenal, Alajuela, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 7

Kate: After such a wonderful time in Montverde but feeling a little tour guided and wildlife watching out we decided to head for La Fortuna which is home to one of Costa Rica's active volcanos' Volcano Arenal. Steve had never seen a volcano so we were pretty excited. The journey was slightly shorter this time- thank god- and we took the bus-boat-bus option to break up the journey a little. As far as we had worked out and people had told us we decided that we would only make it a short stop to Fortuna as once you have seen the volcano there isn´t a huge amount else to do. We were both pretty ready for some more beaching too so one day we thought to see the sights would be plenty. Because we had such ... read more

There was a slight hitch on our first full day in San Jose resulting in Hugh and I having to spend another night there while the rest of the group headed off first thing in the morning to La Fortuna in the north west. A couple of the group had ended their trip on our first night in San Jose and gone off on their way. The second night a group of new people arrived taking the total group size to 18, more than double the previous number and I feared this would feel a lot more like a group trip. However, our enforced stay in San Jose meant that we missed the organised bus and had to sort out a local bus up there the following morning. The bus was reasonably comfortable and luckily we ... read more

Wow! Es ist dunkel, wir steigen aus dem Auto aus, stolpern ueber die Bruecke und schon gehts los mit Eruption um Eruption, knallroten Lawastroemen und einem fantastischen Sternenhimmel ueber uns... Wenn ichs nicht besser wuesste, wuerde ich meinen, ich traeume wieder mal sehr intensiv. Aber das Rauschen des Flusses unter der Bruecke, der leuchtintensive kleine Wagen und die Lawa, die mit 120 km/h 4 km an uns vorbei schiesst beweisen das Gegenteil. Ich werde Zeugin eines unglaublichen Naturspektakels, das doch nur sehr wenigen Touristen vergoennt ist. Schliesslich sind die Eruptionen tagsueber nicht sehr gut sichtbar und auch in der Nacht wird der Vulkan meistens derart von Nebelschwaden umhuellt, dass viele Touristen enttaeuscht weiterreisen. Nicht so Christina und ich... Christina und ich haben uns gestern im Backpackers in San Jose kennengelernt. Dieses reiselustige deutsche ... read more

Didn't get enough of the volcanoes in Nicaragua so we were off to El Castillo and the Arenal Volcano... Arranged a Jeep-Boat-Jeep transport (more of a Bus-Boat-Bus) to get us there, it's apparently a lot faster than trying just the roads. Basically a bus picked us up at our hotel in Santa Elena, and after about an hour trip we arrived at the Laguna de Arenal where our small ferry was waiting. It was a beautiful day, and the Laguna was amazing...it was about another hour on the water, and about twenty minutes in we rounded a point and there was the Arenal volcano in the distance, amazing! It was quite a sight to see it from the Laguna, with the smoke slowly billowing out of the top and drifting right down to the water... We ... read more