Hi all,
Today we packed up, and headed to the bus station to find a local bus to La Fortuna, further up in the mountains.
Costa Rican buses are very organised, on time, and in good condition. The roads are very good as well, with wide deep gullies on either side for all the rain water to drain into.
Also the toilets in Costa Rica are also incredibly clean(so far) Today was the first time we had to pay to go to a public toilet at the bus station - 400 colones, which is about 80c!!
Australia must be one of the only countries where you don't have to pay to use a public toilet, and please let it stay that way.
So after an amazing four hour bus trip through mountain villages, coffee and banana plantations we arrived in La Fortuna. This area is famous for cloud forest and also Arenal volcano which is still active and last exploded in 2010. It is not allowed to climb the volcano, but it's a tourist town full of other activities like hiking, canoeing, swinging through the forest canopy on rip lines, soaking in thermal hot springs.
Of course it all seems to costs a fortune, but then again tourists have money!!
I am sitting on the verandah of our hotel, and if there was no cloud cover, I would presumably be looking at Arenal Volcano. Again the weather is not allowing us this opportunity today, but the locals say, the weather may clear tomorrow. Costa Ricans love to make you happy, so we wait and see.
Hasi is still not well. Fever, sweating, nose running. Seriously he is no fun at all at the moment, so hope he improves in the next day or so.
Annie you should see the hydrangeas here. They are enormous, and when it stops raining , I will take heaps of photos to show you. Mostly pale purple, blue.
Still raining!! Why do we travel so much in the wet season? Crazy.
OK, time to wake Hasi up for dinner. Seems to be several vegetarian restaurants in town.
Hope alls well with everyone.
Love Zak
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