Volcanoes and Hot Springs

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This morning we set off in the morning for a jeep boat jeep ride to the next door town of La Fortuna. I say next door, we went the quick way which took about 3.5 hours and is the favoured tourist route. If we had taken the local bus it would have been 8 hours because instead of going over the lake you have to go round it.
While we were in La Fortuna we went to Volcan Arenal where we saw lava spilling out of it, as it was dark it was a spectacular sight, like fireworks on a mountain side. We were very lucky to see it because when we arrived there was a cloud covering the volcano but after about half hour it had been blown away so we were able to get a perfect view of the lava.
After the volcano it was off to the Baldi Hot Springs in La Fortuna. Not really knowing what to expect I was happily surprised. There were 32 pools of varying temperatures - the hotter ones at the top gradually getting cooler as they came down. They were very relaxing and nice to chill in after the hike we did in the rainforest before the lava viewing.

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