Sleeping with rumbles

View of the volcano from our hotel

Well it’s Sunday afternoon and we’ve had a busy couple of days. We left Cahuita at 10:30. We decided to try the Interbus Service that travels from hotel to hotel in Cost Rica. It was excellent. The bus arrived half and hour early and we were off to La Fortuna. We arrived at our hotel at four o’clock, which gave us lots of time to explore the town.

Man talk about culture shock. We’ve gotten used to the dark jungle full of weird animal noises. Now we are staying in a brightly lit hotel and although there are still lots of weird noises, they are mostly human, with an occasional rumble from the volcano. It’s hard to sleep with all of the light.

Yesterday we mostly explored the city. We poked in shops and went out to supper and planned our assault of the volcano. Supper was at a great open aired restaurant. The roof was cone shaped and thatched. Inside there were flags hanging from many different countries in the world. We were sitting under Austria and next to Hungary. After a while four Germans came in and started looking at the flags and joking around. They were making smart alecky comments about the Hungarian flag so I turned to them and said in German, “Careful now. I’m from Hungary.” We all laughed and it was a good joke, but they talked a lot quieter from then on. Hahaha There are quite a lot of German people here in Costa Rica and it’s been fun eaves dropping.

By the way, someone had stolen the Canadian flag. Who would do such a thing? I hope it wasn’t a Canadian. Imagine being dumb enough to steal your own country’s flag? You can buy those at home you know! Why not steal a Costa Rican flag, or any of the other flags and tell your friends you’ve just come back from a world tour. Do not steal your own country’s flag!

Bridge Swingers

Today we are taking lots of tours. This morning we went to the hanging bridges, rainforest tour. Oh man it was wonderful. We saw tarantulas, red poison dart frogs, birds that make their nests inside of walls of mud. Our guide was really good and knew which hole to shine his flash light into to see a bird or bug. Charles wouldn’t let me touch anything. Sigh…. ( I did manage to dip my finger in rubber tree sap.) We saw waterfalls, Arenal (the volcano), and we looked down through the tops of the trees to the valleys down below. Amazing place, the rainforest. Rain one moment, and sunshine the next steam rising from everywhere. Beautiful!

Bridge we crossed at the top, waterfall below.

Another view of the bridges

Poison Dart Frog

This evening we are going to a hot springs spa called Balli for supper and another tour. I’m looking forward to it. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Any chance there'll be snakes?