The lost volcanoes of Costa Rica

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April 15th 2016

Published: April 16th 2016

Due to my current hectic travelling schedule, I’m a bit behind on the blogs but have found a few days in the country to finally try and catch up with some of the outstanding ones. Rewind to February and after a cold January (especially my week in Finland) it was time to jet off to find some winter sun, it’s a hard life sometimes. I was going to be away for most of the month, the main part of... Read Full Entry

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The Poas Volcano, what I actually saw.

Move along, nothing to see here. The Poas Volcano is non-existent. This also happened to me at Mt Fuji, I'm cursed.

Say cheese!

Costa Rican cheese is rather tasty and they even have dogs that dance for it (well obviously you have to say Queso, the dogs don't speak English)

Ah, I do enjoy a nice bit of rainforest

Wandering through the La Paz waterfall gardens, luckily I didn't spot any tarantualas in this one.

A pretty butterfly

A week later I would learn all about butterfly identification, but at this point in time I was limited to saying it was 'An orange one'.

Don't lick it

Odd things happen when you lick frogs in Costa Rica

Toucans are cool

I repeat, Toucans are cool, they really are.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

-ing birds. Pretty cool to watch them flit around, somehow they don't seem quite real the way they fly

A rescue kitty

I'm not quite sure this one is up for adoption though.

Off to the shops?

The traditional Costa Rican painted ox cart, not sure I'd like to take that down to the supermarket

And one of the famous waterfalls

I guess that is why they call it the 'La Paz Waterfall Garden'

The biggest Ox Cart in the world

Located in Sarchi, what a claim to fame eh?

Sssh!!! Relax....

OK, look very carefully and you might just spot the sloth in the tree, if you can even be bothered.......zzzzzzzz

Arenal Volcano, where are you???

Rubbish Costa Rican volcanos, I don't believe they have any, this is apparently where the Arenal Volcano is. They lie.

Steamy jungle

Hot springs abound close to the Arenal Volcano

More forest

Yep, seems I do like a bit of rain forest.

My favourite spot

I thought it was the best place in the Tabacon hot springs, not too dissimilar to my rain forest themed bathroom back home.

Dirty water

The Rio Suico (on the left) and the Rio Frio (right) about to merge, the Suico water contains sediments from the Irazu volcano

Ziplining over the Rio Sarapiqi

Well, I'd already finished, hence taking the picture, but it was a lot of fun and much easier to cross a river this way compared to my near death experience in Colombia.

The back end of La Paz Waterfall Gardens

You can see this one for free from the road

20th April 2016

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

American Costa Rica
Yes the Americans discovered Costa Rica more than 20 years ago and sadly in my opinion have ruined the ambiance. But Costa Rica allowed it so who am I to judge. Sorry your adventures were less than you hoped. That is the tough part of travel. Things don't always go as advertised....glad you hung in there with a good attitude.

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