Saturday, we loaded up the bus and headed to Volcan Poas! The volcano is still a little bit active and has a diameter which is a mile wide. We got to hike to the volcano and a dormant crater with a lake nearby. I didn't realize this before Saturday, but the white cloud that comes out of the volcano is sulfur, which tickles your throat a bit at first. At first the volcano was cloudy but it cleared up about halfway through just so we could see it :) We got lucky, the weather was perfect.
We didn't get to just go to the volcano though...it was a busy day. We headed to a coffee plantation, where I got a caramel coffee and a pineapple empanada :) Later, we headed to a place which had an aviary (I got to hold a toucan!), a butterfly house, jungle cats, hummingbirds, some other animals, and some gorgeous waterfalls! It was beautiful. It was just a day trip which was about the perfect amount of time.
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| a little cloudy at first... |
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| then clear! Volcan Poas! |
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| lagoon |
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the trails on the way there were so pretty! like a scene from a movie. i got to do a little tree climbing :)
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| behind me is the coffee plantation |
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| sloth...he was cute! |
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| all the things we got to see! |
What beauty and wonder! And REAL Costa Rican plantation coffee! That's a full day :-) Love the Ox Cart Man.
ReplyDeleteLisa
it was awesome! and the ox cart man...charges a dollar to take his picture! those are the only two english words he knows haha. i snagged one from the bus :)
ReplyDeleteI'm submitting my official request for a pic of a Costa Rica waterfall from one of your many waterfall sightings. I love waterfalls....
ReplyDeleteYou really find the sloth cute?!? lol. Wow, you got to see a lot on this day!