Más y Más

I messed up with Snapfish, folks, which apparently does require registration. EVIL. Therefore, for those who don't feel like subscribing (although it's free and handy) I will slowly be uploading various photos from the viaje we took last week. However, not in any order (chronologic or thematic) or anything useful like that. Still, breakdown of the days for those who need it:

Thursday - bus to Monteverde (tiny, tiny seats, poor M could genuinely not fit his legs in, had to sit sideways); walk up to MTV Biological Reserve, got drenched, heard howler monkeys, all very lovely.

Friday - puentes (hanging bridges) and canopy (zipline over top of cloudforest) tour; panic over time but easily made it back for horseride through forest for the evening sunset - which we didn't see. Oops.

Saturday - Jeep Boat Jeep (actually, as another guest put it, more accurantely "van boat van") to Arenal in the morning, walk in the rainforest and volcano trip in the afternoon, followed by thermal baths in the evening, heated by aforementioned volcano!

Sunday - early morning (i.e. out of house by 8!) hike (11km in total) to La Catarata de La Fortuna, the local waterfall. Bathing there, divebombing by toucan, then home, shower and panicked wait for the very popular bus for which you cannot reserve seats in advance. Panic paid off as sat all the way home, unlike some...

Monday - M went home... sob. But I did get to read the Glamour he'd bought me on the bus back to work.

We took a van-boat-van thing from Monteverde to Arenal. Reason? For around $5 we could have got there by bus, taking eight-nine hours. For $25, it took three. Somewhat preferable. Plus, we saw some of the most beautiful scenery along the way, and many, many vultures (zopilotes, apparently). That was cool.


We were not allowed to swim directly under the waterfall, so just dipped ourselves in the water around it. Sadly didn't capture a photo of the unbelievable electric blue of a butterfly that flitted around the rocks of the cascade, but it was incredible.


This main square in Arenal apparently used to be a football pitch, but according to the 2003 Lonely Planet, was becoming a park, bit by bit. By the time we got there, it really was just a park. Gringos played American Football on it. Sick and wrong.


Pretty flowers on a pretty tree which we were suspended over on a hanging bridge. Wasn't too much of a fan of the bridges - creaked an awful lot. Made me feel less safe than the ziplines (more of which mañana!)