March 27, 2011

Costa Rica- La Fortuna

For Spring Break this year, we went to Costa Rica.  We had a great time and enjoyed exploring this beautiful country.  We flew into San Jose and headed to La Fortuna.  We went in the dry season but La Fortuna was still so pretty and green.  The Arenal Volcano was awesome to see and the rain forest is beautiful.
Arenal Volcano
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View from our room

We enjoyed hiking around the volcano and seeing this waterfall and all the beautiful flowers.
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Lake Arenal  
As we were driving around the lake, we saw these guys all over the road...
They were so funny to watch.  I got out of the car to take some pictures and they all started running towards me.

In La Fortuna they have canopy tours all over so of course we had to do one!
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It was so fun and beautiful.
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They had a Tarzan Swing.  They hook you up to the rope and then they open the gate and you pretty much fall off the platform.  It was crazy!!  


Later that afternoon we started our drive to the beach.  We found an awesome German Bakery to eat at and then stopped at some Hot Springs and pretty much had the place to ourselves! We soon found out that it was more of a local place and its only busy on the weekend.  We didn't mind though.
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The Hot Springs
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They even had a pool with Mickey Mouse!  We thought of the Olson's and Vanhille's who were at Disneyworld! 
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La Fortuna was a great place to begin our vacation.  

1 comment:

  1. oh wow I just turned to Erik and said I want to go to Costa Rica for our next vacation! It looks soo beautiful! Looks like you 2 lovebirds popped right out of the Bachelor! ha! The tarzan thing looks freaKy though! No way I could do that!

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