I don't know where I'm a gonna go / When the volcano blow – Jimmy Buffet
Day number 2 saw us, after an excellent breakfast, on the bus to Aranel. We met old friends we didn’t even know we had when we got to the Las Colinas hotel in La Fortuna, as they remembered us from our last visit. I guess the grey beard is a bit distinctive.
Dianne says: The same family runs the hotel and they are very honoured that their hotel is where Santa Claus comes to vacation before the start of his busy season.
The hotel is mostly covered in a canopy of vines with amazing blue flowers everywhere. Of course, it gets trimmed every morning as each day it grows about 18 inches. No kidding. And I’m again reminded how really different and fascinating this place is.
We hiked up the volcano lava fields and found out the actual volcano, which grumbled us to sleep last trip, has been quiet now for a year, after continuously flowing for 50 years or so.
Dianne says: So far this trip they have made me walk a million miles up hill both ways!
This means it might be extinct – or it might be plugged and building up pressure for another eruption. Just a little scary. However, a couple drinks in the hot springs at Baldi, and we were brave enough to spend the night without worry. We even got a picture of the whole volcano, which was something we could not do even with 4 days last time.
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