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Travel Day and Pineapples
... a few Roseate Spoonbills which are bird that are bright pink and white and they have a beak that resembles a spoon. I had been waiting to see one of those since I saw it in my Costa Rican wildlife guide. After two hours of water splashing in our faces we got to where the bus was waiting for us.
On the bus ride to Arenal we had some snacks while we were driving on a very bumpy dirt road. We drove ...
Bus Boat Bus down to stay by the Volcano
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Thurs 3rd May.
Got up at 8am, had breakfast, packed and then checked out of our room. As we had a couple of hours to wait, we stored our bags and had a last wander round town. We weren´t out too long though as it was warming up and we were both getting sticky! At 12pm, we made some lunch to take with us and finished off our ice cream we'd bought. At 12.20pm we loaded up and walked round to the bus terminal and caught the 12.45pm bus to San Jose.
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Riding buses and walking on lava
... 8217;t use it), but are cool enough with all the windows open once the bus is moving. One good thing is that they don’t seem to favour playing loud Latin music.
Once we left behind the heavily populated areas it was a pleasant journey travelling through undulating mountain terrain, regularly stopping at bustling hill towns. We climbed and climbed and then began the long descent to the plains where we had to change buses at ...
Waterfall Mental test
... Still annoying that I can’t just do my own laundry. But the couple at the laundry was very kind and helpful. We were down there for a few hours and then came back to the hotel. I was hoping the clouds would clear and it looked like maybe when a peak of sun shone through the clouds but nope. I was not able to glimpse the mountain today at all. Big bummer.
For dinner we made the mistake of trying something local in town. We stopped by ...
Pampering ourselves
... at our hostel. It was the brother of the guy in Monteverde, so another fab little find.
We were both glad that we didn't take the longer cheaper bus route but later found out that in 1979 the lake was tripled in size as part of a hydroelectric project which now generates an impressive 70% of the country's electricity,. The old towns of Arenal and Tonadora now lie abandoned at the bottom of the lake.
Walked around the town, a little bigger ...
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