 | Another , why am I doing this moment....
2008-03-16, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: mira | | I'm scared of heights. It is a fact that is well established, so why may you ask would I go rappelling down a 70m waterfall... Just because it was there to be done. Todays canyoneering activity requir... |
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| Lava and hot springs
2008-03-15, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: mira | | After the canopy adventure yesterday I slowed things down and went on a night walk. I was quite impressed because my main goal on this trip was to see a sloth and 2 minutes into the walk I saw one. I ... |
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 | Day 7 – Waterfall Rappelling
2007-12-28, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | Wow, this is the biggest group event we have ever been on. The tour is called Pure Trek Canyoning and you rappel down 4 waterfalls and a dry wall. I thought it would be a bit scary but really it was... |
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 | Day 5 – White Water Rafting
2007-12-26, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | We are trying to go white water rafting on every vacation that we can. It rained so much the last few days though that the river was full. When that happens, rapids disappear and life threatening, f... |
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 | Day 4 – Christmas at Baldi Hot Springs
2007-12-25, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | One of the things I was most worried about during this trip was trying to find a taxi on Christmas to take us to the Baldi Hot springs. I decided to book us for the whole day there, lunch and dinner.... |
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 | Day 3 – ATV Tour in Arenal & F’d Up Restaurant
2007-12-24, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | It rained so much last night that our tour to the Venado Caves was cancelled. That was sad because it looked to be like the most fun out of all of our activities. I tried to find an activity so we w... |
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 | Day 2 – Arenal Lake & Eco Termales Hot Springs
2007-12-23, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | So I was told that December in Costa Rica is summertime, apparently that isn’t so where we are at in the Arenal area. We only brought a couple of pairs of pants and LOTS of shorts. It’s raining, it ... |
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 | Following on from previous story .....
2007-12-17, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | So, here I am in La Fortuna. I´ve hooked up with Dermot who I met whilst in Seville, we managed to co-ordinate our meeting via emails. Neither of us had been to La Fortuna before but I just suggested ... |
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 | Welcome to Costa Rica .... Welcome to Disneyland
2007-12-16, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well I´m here in Costa Rica and I´m suffering from culture shock.
But first, another hellish journey to report on..... the boat from Altagracia was a proper boat at least, a small inside seating ar... |
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 | Aguas Thermales
2006-10-23, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: lindy | | Tonight I went on a hike in the jungle which was awesome because we saw monkeys!!!! It started pouring at the end of the hike..but luckily I was prepared. I realized that the mosquitos were insane an... |
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 | Secret Hot Springs
2006-10-22, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: lindy | | Last night we went to these local hot springs and just hung out for hours and watched lava fall down the volcano, it was crazy, I´ve never seen anything like that before. It was a perfectly clear nig... |
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 | Pinas
2006-10-21, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: lindy | | Well here I am, La Fortuna, a cool town in the mountains with an active volcano... and I am addicted to pineapple, I eat it all day long. They make this drink with pineapple and ice and it's soooo yu... |
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 | Fortunate Falls
2004-02-12, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: chefortune | | Volcan Arenal is pretty much your typical, geology text-book-looking volcano. A perfect igneous cone that erupts nearly daily, chucking molten lava, rocks and sulfur high into the air, making nice fir... |
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 | Animal watching on the Caño Negro
2002-03-31, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: nsuffield | | Finally we took the bus out of San José to La Fortuna. This is the place with the active volcano El Arenal. When we got there a little boy (approx. 10 years old) and his dad convinced us to accompany ... |
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