Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Costa Rica - Arenal National Park
My short circuit of Costa Rica started in San José from where I took a bus to La Fortuna.
Departing the San Carlos bus station in San José
La Fortuna stands a few km north of the active Arenal Volcano and – hardly surprisingly – most of the activity is centred around the smoking peak.
A giant ceibo tree in the Arenal National Park.
I did some walking through the Arenal National Park to a lookout on the 1992 lava flow – so did this band of French-Canadian high school students.
I had lunch at the Arenal Observatory Lodge – now here is a place with a view to kill for.
And I climbed up to the crater lake at the adjacent Cerro Chato peak
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story