¡Que Fortuna!

The weekend trip to Arenal will be hard to top I´m afraid. Such an awesome trip, that two posts are necessary to do it justice. La Fortuna is a small town at the base of Arenal (Sandy) Volcano. Arenal is one of the five active Volcanoes and is in the top 3 most visited tourist destinations in Costa Rica. Saturday´s goals were to see the volcano and (hopefully) some lava, and then to go to the Baldi hot springs in the evening. The group as a whole chose to buy the “complete package” from the hotel which included a nature walk, a tour of the volcano, dinner, and then admission to the hot springs. For a group rate of $52 dollars per person, I expected to see a few trees, a large smoky rock, large quantities of rice and beans, and some sulfurous, lukewarm, overcrowded baths. But, four howler monkeys, three spider monkeys, two venomous snakes, two lava chutes, an expansive smorgasbord, and a 310,000 square foot five star watery fantasy land later- I was satisfied with my purchase.
Pictures to come!