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| Pool at Arenal Backpackers Resort |
After taking a shuttle, then a boat across a lake, then another shuttle into town, I finally arrived at my hostel in La Fortuna in the pooring rain. I had found the hostel online and it had a really nice pool so I decided to try it out. It also was suppose to have a great view of Arenal Volcano, which unfortunately has been dormant for the last 2 years. After checking in and getting to my room, I met the others in the room. A bunch of people were going out for food and drinks and kindly invited me to join them. Out of the group of 8, 6 of us were from Canada. This is where I met Mack from Calgary, Kat from Winnipeg and Misha from Vancouver whom I ended spending the next week with.
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| Arenal Volcano |
The next day we headed out for breakfast and planned what we were doing that day. Kat and Misha had signed up for a hike and hotsprings tour that afternoon and it sounded fun so I signed up as well. We hung out in the pool until about 3 when we got picked up for the tour. The first part of the tour was about an hour long guided walk through the rainforest. Our tour guide was really funny, but it was pouring rain and we didn't see many animals. It was still really interesting though.
After the hike we went to a fancy hot springs resort. It had about 25 different pools, all different temperatures. There were also some water slides that were dangerously fast and tons of fun. After seeing a few of the pools and slides, we went to the buffet to get some dinner which was included in the tour. There we met up with Mack. We all had about 5 servings of food because it was so good. And free.
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| Hot Springs |
After dinner we hit up a few more of the pools at the top of the hill. They were all a little different, some with waterfalls, some with swim up bars and some with lounge chairs built into the pools. We hung out for a few more hours and then had to catch the shuttle back to the hostel. We spent the rest of the night hanging out, drinking and meeting some of the other guests from the hostel. We also started discussing heading to Ometepe Island in Nicaragua the next morning because Misha heard it was really awesome and wanted to see it.
The next morning we decided to make our way to Nicaragua, so we all packed our stuff and caught the bus to San Jose. La Fortuna was really pretty and the hot springs were really fun, but it was very developed, touristy and expensive. And the volcano which is one of the highlights is no longer active. I still had fun though and met some really cool people so that made it worth the journey over.
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