Bueno, ahi va un resumencillo de los ultimos 3 dias, va a ser dificil, pero se va a intentar.
Salimos de Monteverde el lunes por la manana adelantandonos un dia porque nos hablaron de un sitio llamando Rio Celeste en el parque del volcan Tenorio y alla nos fuimos a la aventura. Conseguimos alojamiento de chiripa en un sitio llamado Catarata Rio Celeste Lodge, porque fueron los unicos que nos cogieron el telefono. LLegamos justo a tiempo para empezar una excursion por el bosque primario del parque hasta Rio Celeste. Se le llama asi por el color pero como el dia estaba bastante malo estaba bastante revuelto y era mas bien rio chocolate. Pero la caminata en el bosque estuvo muy bien, con fumarolas y aguas burbujeantes incluidas.
El lodge estaba en plena naturaleza y ya veis como era: unas cabanitas en el medio de la nada al borde del bosque, pero estaba genial, estabamos solos y por la noche llovio muchisimo y parecia que se iba a derrumbar...
Al dia siguiente nos marchamos con rumbo al volcan Arenal y tuvimos muchisima suerte porque nos toco un dia fantastico y se vio el volcan todo el camino. Llegamos al Lodge, que esta al pie del volcan y se veia de maravilla. Resulta que el volcan lleva dormido unos 3-4 meses y ahora no sale lava, pero estan esperando que se despierte cualquier dia, supongo que sera en cuanto nos vayamos nosotros.
Por la noche nos fuimos a las termas de Tabacon que son un rio de aguas termales naturales con muchas piscinitas y demas entretenimientos...incluido un chiringuito dentro del agua para tomarse unas caipirinas!!
Hoy por la manana ya habia cambiado el tiempo otra vez y estaba muy cubierto, aun asi subimos al Cerro Chato y casi echamos los higados subiendo, creo que manana va a haber muchas agujetas. Total al llegar arriba habia mucha niebla y la vista tenemos que imaginarnosla...
A ultima hora de la tarde cuando ya nos volviamos nos encontramos con un grupo de monos aulladores en el margen de la carretera. Por fin! ya pensabamos que eran una leyenda urbana, pero si, si que estan, y si que hacen, uh, uh, uh.
Manana salimos hacia Tortuguero y estaremos en el Caribe!!!
There goes a summary of the last 3 days, it's going to be tough but we'll try!
We left Monteverde on Monday morning one day earlier than planned because we kept hearing people taking about a place called Rio Celeste on Volcan Tenorio National Park, so we took of. We managed, just by chance to get acommodation in a place called Catarata Rio Celeste Lodge, just because they were the only ones that answered the phone. We got there just in time to start a hike through the forest ending at Rio Celeste. They call it Rio Celeste obviosly because of the colour, but because the weather was terrible it was more like Rio Chocolate. But the hike was great, with bubbling water and fumming vapour holes.
The lodge was right in the middle of nowhere and you can see in the pictures: a few cabins right off the forest, but it was great, I think we were the only guests and at night it poured like crazy and it seemed we were going down
Next day we left for La Fortuna and Volcan Arenal. We were extremely lucky because the weather was terrific and we could see the volcano all the way. We got to the lodge, which is on the foot of the volcano and we had a great view. Unfortunately the volcano has been dormant for about 3 months and there is no lava flow, but they expect it to wake up any day now.
After dark we went to Tabacon thermal spa, which is a river of thermal water with many small pools where you can relax and chill out and have a couple of caipirinas too!!
Today the weather had changed again and it was rainy. Despite this we hiked up to Cerro Chato and almost died trying, really stiff climb! On top of that, once on the top you could see no farther than your nose, so you have to imagine the view...
Just when we were coming back we happened upon a group of howler monkeys “hanging” about. Finally! We were beginning to think they weren't real, but they are.
Tomorrow we head out towards Tortuguero, and we will be at the Caribbean Sea!!!!
