Hotel Arenal Rabfer La Fortuna

... ourselves into our hostel, run by an 'eccentric' owner of a seeming menagerie of pets, comfy rocking chairs, and an endless stream of visiting friends/neighbours, we took a walk around town and headed off to the Baldi Hot Springs. <br><br>After a rather wet, 3km walk (error!) we arrived at what looked like paradise. Steaming baths with floating bars and surrounded by ...

... all pilled in to head to the swimming hole.<br>The water there was absolutly freezing but it was fun watching the locals there, they are like a bunch of little monkeys hanging upside down on the rope swing and doing triple front flips of it like its nothing.<br>The major attraction in La Fortuna is Arenal Volcano, there is a bunch of different companies that run tours to view the lava for about $20 or so. It just so happened that Erics parents ...

... I lost my lonely planet central america so i am flying blind in costa rica and panama and we only managed to make it to a town about an hour from La Fortuna.<br>I think the girls were slightly ******, but clearly not my fault. We got a hotel and went out for pizza and everyones mood picked up, we also had cable in our hotel room and watched gladiator before going to bed early.<br><br>28th July<br>We got up early to get a 6am bus to La Fortuna. It didnt work out to ...

... how close to the edge we were and how much water was gushing along the road! Once at Santa Elena we spent a pretty relaxing afternoon walking around in the rain until we got too cold and found a cafe that had a play station and english tv so settled in for a while. Walking around didn{t take long...about 5 minutes through Santa Elena, another 5 minutes to Monteverde and about 1 minute in Monteverde! Very small and quiet place and hard to see around becuase of the low cloud and rainy mist.

... We then drove to the volcano Arenal. That is where you need the 4x4! The road is not really a road, it´s mostly holes. We spotted a tourist minibus and decided to stop with them, as we thought they would know the good sport for lava watching. Despite being a bit cloudy, seeing the bright red lava running down the volcano was very impressive.We really enjoyed that. We had to drive back down in the dark (trop noir trop peur), so we took it easy ...

... day. The butterfly garden was impressive and we saw a lot of beautiful butterflies that flew around you and landed on you throughout the whole tour. It was a bit strange because you can see them up close and they stick there tongues on you and it tickles and looks a bit creepy, but all in all, it was pretty incredible. We returned later that evening as we were told that the frogs were generally more active in the evenings. They did not ...

Etter noen dager på et lite sted som heter Montezuma ved kysten, har vi kommet oss til den sjarmerende smaabyen La Fortuna. Jeg lå syk i vel en uke i Montezuma, og det var stort sett hele oppholdet der. Derfor fikk jeg ikke opplevd så mye. Jeg rakk iallefall å få en veldig fin hiketur opp til en foss hvor vi badet og kastet oss uti fra et tau. Vi bodde i et lite familiedrevet backpacker hostel rett på stranden med skikkelig reggea vibes. De hadde en nydelig valp som gjorde ...

... pool was like boiling water. We stayed in the warm pools most of the time. Just as the sunsets, the rain comes in, and it is a mystical experience to be in the pool with waterfall and raining at the same time. My dad really like the waterfall and massage pool, which really helped him relax his back muscles. We ended up spending about 3 hours at the hot springs it was so relaxing and it puts us straight to sleep this night.

Hey there, ok, now here we are at the most popular city of Costa Rica for surfing. It's on the pacific side just above middle line of the country. A beautiful city by the beach but the only problem is the streets are made out of dirt so there's a lot of mud all the time, in the rainy season that is. I have found a beautiful hostel by the name of NAHUA owned by Gabriella, what a sweetheart! They are appartments not to expensive with a beautiful ...

... combination had ever ocurred to them! Then, a comfortable short boat ride down a river with jungle covered banks interspersed with humble settlements. We saw a few birds on the way and a caiman (small alligator) sunning itself. Los Chiles, the border town in Costa Rica was small, tidy and already seemed more prosperous and ´Westernised´ than similar-sized towns we had encountered in Nicaragua. We gratefully accepted the Costa Rican currency the ...