We’re staying at a sustainable hotel near Arenal Volcano called Arenal Paraiso. Unfortunately the top of the volcano has been in the clouds, so we haven’t seen it yet. The hotel is lovely and has thermal pools of varying temperatures and after lunch we had a dip. We really needed it because the morning was spent at Arenal Hanging Bridges Park. Just there alone we walked a 3 mile trail and my phone says all together I walked 6 miles today. The hike was quite strenuous—-up and down hills and across 5 long suspension bridges and several shorter ones. I was very unsure I could do it, as I have a fear of heights. But I had support & encouragement from my friends and vowed I would not look down. I made it! The idea of this park is that we were up level with many tree tops and had a completely different perspective of the rainforest from ground level. We saw some tropical birds and a few animals. I didn’t take any pix of them because I was afraid of dropping my phone during the walk. But I can get pix from others later.
Later in the afternoon we went to the town of La Fortuna for some free time—a very touristy town but with enough locals to make it interesting for us to walk around. Finally we went to an organic farm and saw a large number of vegetables and fruits—-especially those unique to CR. They had a couple dancers demonstrate a few dances in traditional clothes then served us dinner. (Not to my liking so this was the first time I was unhappy with a meal—so I can’t complain.)
We are all exhausted. Tomorrow we pack up for next adventures.
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