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La Fortuna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Home Sweet Home
I caught the 8 am boat from Sabalos Lodge to Sand Carlos and from there boarded the boat to cross to Costa Rica - another 1 1/2 hour trip. In Los Chiles I found an overpriced hotel and went looking for a tour of Cano Negro which is a wetlands ...
Fellowship of the ring
... Volcanoe looked much like the vast barren lands of Mordor. So enjoy this amazing recount of an awesome weekend - our very first weekend in Costa Rica. Satruday at the break of dawn 7 of us boarded this shuttle taxi to a bus depot to take the local ...
Hot Lava, Hot Springs and Hot Girls
Day One on the Volcano. we awoke early for our zipline tour. We ate fruit platters and drank delicious coffee and a bus picked us up. We drove to a ranch-type place where we put on helments and borded a tractor. The tractor pulled us up the ...
Arenal Volcano
... saw nothing but the most spectacular thunderstorms!! Well, we sort of knew that it might be like this as we have come to Costa Rica in what they call "Green Season" - to be honest that´s just excellent marketing talk for "Rainy Season" !! ...
drumetie la vulcanul Arenal
... plin de entuziasm sa negociez inchirierea unei motociclete Honda,rosie si frumoasa pentru a descoperi mai usor imprejurimile din La Fortuna, cascadele, vulcanul Arenal si lacul Arenal.motocicleta avea schimbator manual si in cele din urma am luat un ...
Cataratas.
Well we haven´t seen any lava yet, because the Volcano is surrounded in clouds, but we did take a very beautiful hike to a waterfall with a swimming hole. Very cool! Altogether it´s been a very good day. Tonite we will see what happens with the ...
parties and volcanoes
Hello! It's been an interesting and packed week this past week. I finally feel like everything is coming together, which is as it should be! Morgan, of course, is doing wonderfully with the kids, as is Sol Anyel, and so I feel like I can return to the ...
Volcanoes and Vertigo
... trying to decipher the queuing system we managed to get on and more importantly to get a seat. Arrived in a highlands town called La Fortuna, famous for its close vicinity to the active Volcano Arenal. Had an idea where we wanted to stay so batted off ...
Arenal volcano
... , hike in the forest and later relax in the hot springs near by. The tour started at 3:30 p.m. so we spent the morning exploring La Fortuna and then returned to the hotel to have a swim. As luck would have it, the clouds parted at about noon so we could ...
Waterfall repelling is so exhilerating
... doing such a cool activity. I am totally hooked and will try and look into doing more in the UK or come back to Costa Rica and do 3-4 days hiking and repelling whilst camping... this is the way to do it so Diego tells me. That evening still ...
Ankunft in Costa Rica und Vulkan Arenal
... es sich dort eine gemuetliche Stelle sucht und genuesslich wieder in den Schlaf driftet. Was fuer ein beeindruckendes Tier! Zurueck in La Fortuna schaffen wir es gerade noch, unsere Sachen umzupacken, bevor es mit dem Kleinbus auf die naechste Tour geht, ...
Waterfalls, Volcanoes and Springs
... and an eerie red glow surrounding the summit. We then had some exquisite sangria and dinner at Lava lounge. On our first day in La Fortuna we took an afternoon tour which was a horseback and waterfalls trip. The horses, bless them, were very hot and I'm ...
La Fortuna
Becca So we finally met up with my friend Kenery and her bf Wirt in La Fortuna, which is a small town near Volcan Arenal, a large active volcano. The hostel we all stayed out turned out to be kinda gross and the owner tried to scam us on every activity ...
New Years Day
... and a white-faced monkey (this was a real highlight for Alex who had been hoping to see one ever since we arrived in Costa Rica). On the volcano we hiked to a waterfall among the lava flow from the initial 1968 eruption, learned about many plant species ...
A weekend admiring nature's wonders
... pictures, finish schoolwork, do some work on our theses and get ready for class starting Wednesday. It's a lot warmer here than in Montreal that's for sure, am I making anyone jealous?!?!?! The invite is open, Costa Rica awaits... come one come ...
Arenal/Monteverde
... and tarantulas which I didn't like one bit. Our guide told us they don't actually know how poisonous the spiders in Costa Rica are because the research hasn't been done. She was referring specifically to the banana spider who lives on, yes ...
Dia 3. Volcan Arenal
... los Puentes Colgantes (Horario: 7:30 a 16:40) sobre las 7:30 AM. Despues de los puentes ir a las Cataratas de la Fortuna, aunque se puede invertir el orden si queremos para evitar aglomeraciones. Despues de comer, ir sobre las 14:00 o ...
Fire on the mountain and agua caliente
... lookout and a couple of hours in the Baldi Hot Springs complex. The tour was awesome. Our guide, Noe was from the Carribean side of Costa Rica and was really connected to nature. He said that when he guides, he does it from the heart and that´s why it´s ...
La Fortuna
Take the Boat/ Horseback trip from La Frotuna to Monteverde. The trip is well worth it they even drive your gear for you so you don't need to carry it on horseback and yes, you can trust ...
La Fortuna
La Fortuna - Our next stop on the trip northwards was the town of La Fortuna. The reason to come here was the nearby Arenal volcano, which is extremely active and you can get good views of lava flows. Unfortunately for all the days that we ...
A non-erupting volcano and some missing animals
... the Central Highlands. The highlands contain cloud forests, lakes, volcanoes and lots of other nature type stuff. My first stop was La Fortuna. This is the nearest town to the Arenal Volcano. This wasn't so good for the town in 1968 ...
La Fortuna / Vulkan Arenal
... , Riesenratten, Faultiere und unzaehlige Voegel gesehen. Auch die Pflanzenwelt ist sehr vielfaeltig und das Land extrem fruchtbar. Nach La Fortuna sind wir hauptsaechlich wegen dem Vulkan Arenal gekommen...einer der Top 10 der aktivsten Vulkane der Welt. ...
Where'd the time go...?!
... being used as whacking sticks (the kids, not me I hasten to add!) we headed to the hot springs of Tabacon just outside La Fortuna. For those of you that have ever been to Center Parcs and sat outside in the jacuzzi in the dark, watching the snow ...
Out of Control
... the stem on the underside of a large leaf, folding it in half and creating a new shady home underneath); butterflies (including Costa Rica’s famous Mariposa Morpho – a beautiful, if erratic, blue butterfly that can, without fail, pre-empt a ...
Jour 4 - La Fortuna
... cidés d'aller à pied à un centre éco-touristique sur la flore, les insectes (papillons) et la faune locale. C'est à 3-4 km de La Fortuna. Puisqu'il fait très chaud et que nous ne sommes pas encore tout à fait habitués à la chaleur, c'était quand ...
Our Fried Egg Eureka
... , beach, mountain, beach--though not intentionally. Our second mountain leg was to Volcan Arenal in the north central area of Costa Rica. Arenal is a perfectly conical active volcano. On the western side, you can hike up through recent lava fields, and on ...
Arenal, Costa Rica
... surf to wake up. Then we boarded the truck to take the long drive to the Nicaraguan Border and then the crossing into Costa Rica. We drove into the mountains to Lake Arenal to check out the Volcano and adventure sports. We all arived pretty tired but ...
Return to La Fortuna
After finishing work on Friday, Liz and I repeated the journey back to La Fortuna as a convenient place to stop en route to Monteverde and a good place for a white water rafting trip. Saturday we were up for a 6.30am start driving about 3 hours to the ...