Arenal and La Fortuna

We spent our first three nights on the outskirts of town at a place nestled in amongst the forest. 200m from our room and we were in dense bush. We spent our days doing school, walking in the forest, and we went on a guided tour to Arenal Volcano which is the 5th most active volcano in the world. Unfortunately when we did our tour there was cloud hanging around the top so we didn’t see any action. Some people we met went the day before us and saw it spit out some rocks.

The next night was spent at Los Lagos (The Lakes) which has rooms, hot pools, cold pools, water slides, a wet bar, crocodile & butterfly farm, and a day spa. It was a decadent 24 hours. We also had a clear view of the volcano from our room but the lava and rock throwing action is only seen from the other side of it. We did get to see smoke billowing out though.

Our last stop in this area was at the Aranel Backpackers in La Fortuna. La Fortuna is a very touristy town where every second shop is a tour company of some kind and most of the other shops are souvenir of food places. That night we got to sleep in tents under a large roof with no walls. It poured with rain so we had great sounds to fall asleep to.

Novel fruit salad
School time

Walking in the bush around our accommodation

There were so many daddy long legs walking across the grass it was bouncing

Tour to Arenal Volcano

The people that lived in the town at the base of it didn't know it was a volcano and most of them were killed when it erupted and buried the town in 1968.
A sloth we saw on our way to Arenal

The sunset view from the base of Arenal Volcano


Los Lagos

The view of the volcano from our room

The 32 degree pool by the bar

More smaller pools

Me looking slightly happy to be at the bar and in the pool

Playing on the waterslide. This pool was only 24 degrees.

There was also a waterslide in the hot pool too.

I couldn't resist

That's The Kincaid's tent in front and mine peeking out on the left.