La Fortuna

Well, we have spent 3 days and nights here in La Fortuna. It's a wonderful place, but not somewhere where we would consider trying to look for a home. I'm not really sure why, it just doesn't feel right. If we needed to choose today I think we would go straight back to Monteverde and Santa Elena, that was by far our favourite place as a family so far.

Anyways, here in La Fortuna, the main attraction is the Arenal Volcano. Everywhere has a spa to pamper you, they use products made with mud from near the volcano, etc. There are many many zip lines and canopy tours, and of course the Gondola up to the look-out tower for the spurts of Lava. This is what we did a few days ago. It was fantastic. You could see Lake Arenal from one side of the platform, and the Volcano from the other. A year ago the Volcano changed it's Lava flow direction, and it now faces directly towards the look-out platform. Lucky us, But Unlucky us, the best time to see the Lava (obviously) is late at night. Being the slow season (we seem to always catch up with both the slow season and the rain.... humm), there were no night tours yet. But we did get to see the 'white' lava during the day, and it was absolutly incredible. We stayed at the top for as long as we could to take in this beautiful site. I hope you like the pictures.

Once we were done, we headed back to the hotel. We spent some time in the actual city of La Fortuna, looking around at the shops and tried a few of the restaurants. I wish I could tell you something really really exciting, but this place just didn't do it for us.

I've tried to get the photo's on here, but it's not working. You can find them here.