La Fortuna is where one heads to for amazing views of the Arenal volcano.
It is easy to get local transport in Costa Rica... the hotel in La Fortuna arranged a hotel pick up for me from San Jose...... there were just 4 of us in the minibus.
The volcano towers over the town.....this photo from my bedroom in the morning!
This area has many luxury resorts but I chose a simple hotel within the town, the Monte Real. I had been very happy with the chosen hotels in Bolivia on my National Geographic/GAdventures tour and they used this hotel. It had a pool! Albeit small! But it also had a stream running behind the restaurant area where supposedly one could see sloths hanging out! I didn't!
Also I did not want to be restricted to a resort area.
A hike around the area was amazing and varied!
First I took a lava walk up the volcano......
Next stop was a 500 step hike down to take a dip in the Arenal waterfall. As we had to sign a liability release before going down the steps I decided a glass of wine in the cafe with a view suited me better!
From here we went to the Mistico Hanging Bridges park......
One takes a long hike up to get to the top hanging bridge......then a slow hike down! We were warned that vipers were known to hang out at one of the bridges! I was using the handrail on the way up and was a little taken aback to almost touch this snake! I grew up in Ireland... we have a snake phobia!!
......looking back up at it from the next one down..........
The bridges themselves shook a lot while traversing them! And there were 6 in total to traverse!
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