We meticulously downloaded the route to La Fortuna and drove the one hundred kilometers necessary for the trip. Although the city was but twenty kilometers from our starting point there is a national park in the way.
We picked up a rancher that was hitchhiking. He had 520 hectare of pasture land, clear cut rainforest in one of the most eco diverse areas on earth for 50 head of cattle. Nice guy, but...
We finally reached the German bakery we have visited a few times to find that it was now closed on Sunday, much to my chagrin. It certainly is the best baker in Central America.
A long drive up brick paved entry to the Lodge, overlooking Volcan Arenal and Lago Arenal and we were not done with horrific roads. There was some construction and I had to negotiate a gravelly, muddy dip, in the road on the crest of a hill the road barely wider than the car, with a cement mixer sticking two feet into what little space I had. We booked a room and then a rappeling tour and headed off to town to find that the rappeling was to take place at place on our way to San Jose. Our sixty dollar premium was for taking us there and returning us to the hotel. Great, an hour and half back to be retraced. I returned to the hotel and cancelled our reservations for the rapelling.
Back down that long driveway yet again and off to the Observatory Lodge. It started to rain. No way we could see the volcano. We left and returned to our room as there really isn't much of a night life scene in La Fortuna.
Karl got some cool pictures of frogs but they are on my camera and my computer won't read the SD cards. The cable is around here somewhere... ahh later, way to many pictures to go through.
Hah! I just realized this was a guy we picked up a few days later. Oh, well, you'll never know the difference.
We picked up a rancher that was hitchhiking. He had 520 hectare of pasture land, clear cut rainforest in one of the most eco diverse areas on earth for 50 head of cattle. Nice guy, but...We finally reached the German bakery we have visited a few times to find that it was now closed on Sunday, much to my chagrin. It certainly is the best baker in Central America.
A long drive up brick paved entry to the Lodge, overlooking Volcan Arenal and Lago Arenal and we were not done with horrific roads. There was some construction and I had to negotiate a gravelly, muddy dip, in the road on the crest of a hill the road barely wider than the car, with a cement mixer sticking two feet into what little space I had. We booked a room and then a rappeling tour and headed off to town to find that the rappeling was to take place at place on our way to San Jose. Our sixty dollar premium was for taking us there and returning us to the hotel. Great, an hour and half back to be retraced. I returned to the hotel and cancelled our reservations for the rapelling.
Back down that long driveway yet again and off to the Observatory Lodge. It started to rain. No way we could see the volcano. We left and returned to our room as there really isn't much of a night life scene in La Fortuna.
Karl got some cool pictures of frogs but they are on my camera and my computer won't read the SD cards. The cable is around here somewhere... ahh later, way to many pictures to go through.
Hah! I just realized this was a guy we picked up a few days later. Oh, well, you'll never know the difference.
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