Arenal Hanging Bridges Arenal Volcano National Park

Good title for a blog post, don't you think? It certainly draws the eye and foreshadows how our evening ended (or at least, attempted to).

In short, today was not exactly our day, while not being horrible.

We began by driving out to the Hanging Bridges on the other side of the volcano and Lake Arenal. When we arrived, we were told …

For the second half of our trip we explored the area around Arenal Volcano. We went ziplining with Sky Trek one morning, then explored the hanging bridges with Jacamar Naturalist Tours in the afternoon. Another day we explored Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge by taking a boat ride down a river. We also went rappelling down the Lost Canyon Waterfall with …

... - some looked like dead-leaves and other were bright green with gold accents.  We traversed the dam and explored Arenal Hanging Bridges.  It was a nice hike with some interesting scenery, but a little too popular for a real nature walk.  ...

This morning we woke up early and headed to the "Hanging Bridges" hike. It's about 2 miles round trip and was our first real jungle experience. There are 10 metal bridges that you cross on the trail and 6 large suspension bridges. The highest is 98 ...

... tour ops, and somehow passing for a student to get a discount, we waited in the SUN for our ride to the Arenal Hanging Bridges, a two-mile walk through a thick primary forest with a series of six swinging suspension bridges, some a football field long ...