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La Fortuna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Last day in Costa Rica
So we wake up, shower, and pack our stuff. It is raining out which means none of Amanda's stuff that she washed dried. If we want to return the car on time and not pay any extra money then we have to leave by 11am. I have already comes to ...
ARENAL and Surroundings
... La Fortuna in the early afternoon. On a whim, we asked the owner of Mi Tierra about recommended places to stay while in La Fortuna. I had researched several places on the net and through hostel bookers but hadnt actually booked any as I figured I would do ...
on the edge of a volcano
... top of the arenal volcano and a bunch of bugs and birds. Eventually Are & I roll out.of bed and we hit La Fortuna for breakfast. Best of breakfast was R's carrot & orange juice shake. Yum. We decide todrive around the volcano area. ...
spa ho's
or sp-os...we head to the hot springs. D & Rach are getting massages and I get a facial. what's not to like? Hot cabana boys. Ot pools. Spectacular setting, Relaxing music, sound of the river nearby the open ...
La Fortuna
... a nurse in a private hospital down the road as we think the leg may need a further looking at.... Who said romance is dead! La Fortuna DAY THREE Up, breakfast and down the medical centre by nine only to find the doctor is not there until eleven, so we ...
Pura Vida
... For canyoneering, we reppeled down gorgeous waterfalls (have you ever seen an ugly one? Let's be real.) in the rainforest around Costa Rica's Arenal volcano. It was such an adrenaline rush as we desended the volcano with the falls pushing us forward. We ...
Arenal Volcano & the Cerro Chato
Gab: Before I begin describing what we did today, I would like to draw your attention to the pictures of our "jungle tent" at the Essence Arenal youth hostel. It was a bit basic but at least we had a lamp inside. At night we heard coyotes howling before ...
Rio de Americanos...
... or being surrounded by a group of very attractive men (and none being handy), I took a jeep-boat-jeep combination trip to La Fortuna, a town sitting at the base of a particularly large volcano (the volcano thing I later learned was to become a bit of a ...
Day 4- Falls, Walk and Tabacon
Another rainy day in the rainforest. It was about 78 degrees and we walked up the road (same road as Cerro Chato is on) to La Fortuna Falls. It was up all the way and took lots of energy and a few hours. Pretty scenery on the way. Later we decided to ...
Arenal hanging bridges
... heel lief eekhoorntje gezien. Een erg warm en vochtig rondje. Gelukkig koelt het hier 's avonds een stuk meer af dan in La Selva wat het slapen wel ten goede komt ;-) Na de excursie heerlijk in Caribische sferen geluncht (regaemuziek, rasta jongens, ...
Jun 24, 2011
Volcanoes, Waterfalls, Hot Springs, Oh My!
... a ridiculous hour (6am) for me (the sleep-a-holic) and walked the beautiful property here at Villa Hermosa outside of La Fortuna, Costa Rica. The birds were out in droves and I got to see woodpeckers and tanagers and hummingbirds frolicking in the morning ...
Waterfall Birthday
... he’s come here to film, starring me. So now I’ve gotta work on my acting skills! La Fortuna is a tourist destination in NW Costa Rica. It has everything---lowland rainforest surrounding the peak of Volcán Arenal, water sports on Lake Arenal, ...
Rainy La Fortuna!
... in terms of getting it in my travels! But boy oh boy is it nice to eat! Oh and we tried one of the famous dishes here in Costa Rica called "Gallo Pinto" which is a beans and rice dish. At first we were like ... uh ok...just beans and rice ... they must ...
Day 5 - Travel Day to La Fortuna
Missing out on rafting trip Nice room... with television Hike to Waterfall Wonderful Steak Dinner Introduction to ...
A wet day in La Fortuna
... hotel rooms and tours while we were retreiving our luggages. From what I read in the tour book, there are lots of scams in La Fortuna, so we basically ignored them. My dad and I walked around for the next 20 minutes looking for this Cabina Grijalba that ...
Adventures!
Right now were up in La Fortuna, a small town far north in Costa Rica. Came back from an island in Panama some days ago, ws really nice but rained all the time so didn't stay there long.. So caught one of the local buses up here. It's quite an experiences ...
Hiking in Volcano Arenal National Park
... . But it didn't take long for a local Tico businessman to stop for us and take us the remaining distance to La Fortuna. Mission accomplished! The reason we wanted to get back ASAP to La Fortuna was that because we'd now done all ...
Baden in der Vulkan-Lagune
... , fast oben angekommen zu sein, das naechste Schild: noch 750m. Ich bin mir nicht mehr so sicher, ob 1m in Costa Rica dasselbe ist wie 1m in Deutschland... Der Blick vom Gipfel auf den rauchenden Arenal entschaedigt fuer alles, und trotz abenteuerlichem ...
Tortuguero to La Fortuna
... the floor next to me! The only weak point was the local beer, simply called Pilsen (maybe from some Czech outpost in Costa Rica?), which was reminiscent of export gold. It started raining quite heavily in true tropical style while we ate our dinner, but ...
Vlak bij de vulkaan Arenal
... overal weer wat foto's van gemaakt. Na deze wandeling zijn we gaan ontbijten en daarna, om 8.30uur, meteen vertrokken naar het plaatsje La Fortuna waar ons hotel "Los Lagos" zich zou bevinden. Dit is een hotel waar je een heel mooi uitzicht hebt op ...
Good times in La Fortuna
... many activities that were on offer. It defiantly a place you could spend a few more days in. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in La Fortuna. I defiantly recommend a visit. It’s a place where you can relax with a few short hikes or let yourself loose and ...
La Fortuna
... van oma maken. Dus wij aardappels koken en daarna bakken in een stikhete keuken, maar we hebben wel lekker gegeten. We vonden La Fortuna niet zó leuk dat we er nog een dag wilden blijven dus de volgende ochtend namen we de eerste bus het dorp ...
Vulkantrek
Idag skulle vi tidligt op for at gå en tur på en udslukt vulkan - Cerro Chato - der ligger tæt på Arenal. Det er altid en god idé at starte tidligt på dagen fordi det ofte begynder at regne om eftermiddagen. Vi havde aftalt at ...
La (Un)Fortuna(te)
... blue skies overhead and in the distance we could see the majestic shape of Volcan Arenal, the only strombolian - cone-shaped - volcano of Costa Rica's 120 volcanic peaks (ok, so I was listening to the guide a little bit). The very top was obscured ...
Where´s the volcano?
... cynical but after being in Nicaragua, where everything is cheap and the people are friendly without trying to sell you on a tour, La Fortuna was a disappointment. Nevertheless, the TV was great and since we have no cable at home, we were happy to get a ...