The fantastic rainforest of Costa Rica

Hello there.


After small and quiet Cañas, we took a busride to a place called Arenal. In this area there is, or were a active lava running vulcano. We read about it online and found out that it had been "sleeping" sice 2010 sometime. Still active but no lava showing.. But we wanted to go there anyway, because it is suppose to be very beautiful there. It is a rainforrest and a lake there, and hot springs. There is also many other tings to see and do there.

We checked in to a Hotel Called Arenal Lodge. It was set on top of a mountain with view over the valley and over the vulcano Arenal and over some of the lake too. We were a bit unlucky because when we where there the weather never cleard compleatly, but we saw enugh to see how beautiful it was around there.

This is our cabins, we stayed in the one to the left of all of them. -Not to bad..

The view from our cabaña:

We both were suppose to take a tour, that was included at our hotel the next day after we checked in. But the weather was to wet.. Nether Gry or me had rain pants with us, and that was needed. So we decided to take a taxi "downtown" to get som rainclothing. The taxi was 30 dollars/160Nkr so we rented a car while we were at the Lodge. That was a good thing, easier and cheaper to get around by our selves. The car was 75 dollars each day.

That day we took a tour to a place called Tabacon. That was just amazing! There were hot springs from the vulcano there, that they had made go in different pools, rivers and waterfalls.

After swimming in the hotsprings for sevral hours we we drove to a store for some snacks..

Mr V fell asleep:

Next day I took this walk in the nearby Jungel With my Guide Miguel. We saw lots of different interesting stuff:

Cameleon: 

Vampire bats hanging under a fallen tree:

This frog was in our hotel garden:

What a fantastic frog... so cool!

Gry was out one day horsebackriding to a beautyful waterfall.

 Horeses aint my thing unless there are loads of them inside a engine.. So I was out with a fourwheeler one day.

We saw the colorful Tucan.

And a nasty big ant, this one was like 3 centimeters long.. I was about to lean on where it was sitting..

Two people on a four wheeler tru a mudhole aint always a sucsess.. hehe..

Gry relaxing at the fountain in the beautyful park in La Fortuna:

When we were out for a walk near the vulcano we were met by this sign..

Jungle Jane and Tarzan out walking:

One of the small trees in there..:

Always a snake lurking by..:

The internett lines where we are now ar so slow so we have to wait with some of our photos to later.. this is just a selection of some of them.

At the moment we are in Puerto Viejo Talamanka, that is all the way south on the carabean side of Costa Rica. Finally found a apartment like place were we can stay the rest of our time here in CR.

To be continued..