Welcome back to my traveling blog. Today I will talk to you guys about my 10 days in Costa Rica. This trip happened a week later after I went to Canada and it was amazing. This was part II of my senior week present. I went to Costa Rica with my Spanish class on June 17, 2011 to June 27, 2011.The group trip was with the company EF tourYou can check the trips here, they are really great: http://www.eftours.com/educational-tours/collections
We departed from Philadelphia airport at 5am to then have a two hour layover in Miami Fl arriving to Costa Rica at 1pm. After meeting with our tour guy (Victor) and arriving to our hotel we had the chance to see San Jose while we waited for the other two groups to arrive from North Carolina and Nebraska. While waiting, we walked around San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. Unfortunately it was raining but that never stopped me. Walking around the city of San Jose reminded me of the Spanish colonial architecture that Old San Juan, the capitol of Puerto Rico, shares with San Jose. We first stopped at the Mall Internacional. We walked around for a bit, got some food, and then left to go to downtown San Jose. Over there we visited one of the churches, a big plaza, and a bakery. After that we went back to the hotel to rest and prepared ourselves for our adventure in Costa Rica!!!
On our second day in Costa Rica we had a nice Costa Rican style breakfast at the hotel where we stayed and it was delicious. After breakfast we visited one of the National Parks in Costa Rica near the Poás Volcano. This was the first time I was going to see a volcano and I was really hype about it but first we saw a bunch of tropical animals in the national park. One cool thing about this mini zoo was that they had all the animals out in the wild except the poisonous one but they had a room full of butterflies and that was a really cool experience. After seeing all the animals in the park we went up the hill and arrived to the viewing site of the volcano.
For my surprise it wasn't what I expected a volcano to look like. The volcano was flat instead of your stereotypical volcano. It was still impressive because the volcano is still active and I was at the main crater of the volcano and just having the thought that it could've erupt was really scary but at the same time awesome.
Day 3: Lake + Arenal Volcano
We arrived late to our hotel from Poás so when I woke up and looked outside my balcony I almost died. The view to the Arenal volcano was amazing! Seeing that amazing volcano made me realize how big the world is and for the first time in my life I took a moment to enjoy this view. I took the moment to appreciate the beauty of nature and that huge volcano. Later in the day we went to lake Arenal. This lake is a superficial lake that the government of Costa Rica created for some ecological reason which I don't remember now but under this lake there is a abandoned town. They say that on a good day we can see the cathedral and some houses in the bottom of the lake while kayaking. We had the chance to kayak and to swim in the lake.
After visiting the lake we went to La Fortuna Waterfall which is deep into the rainforest of Arenal. This walk was really long but it was a good one. After being tired of that walk we arrived to the waterfall and it was worth the walk. The fall was great and it reminded me of el chorro de Juana in Puerto Rico but on steroids. It was nice walking around and seeing monkeys hanging around on the trees.We finished out the day by visiting the hot springs in Arenal. Yeah, I said it, Hot springs. It was great. The hot springs were heated because of the Arenal volcano. Every natural pool had a different temperature. It felt great listening to nature in the middle of the night while resting in the hot springs.
The beginning of this week was great and the rest of it was about to get better. My next post will be part II of my Costa Rica trip. Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog. Can't wait to tell you more about this trip.
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