In the end the rainforest won out over the beach and we headed for the town of Santa Elena and the famous rainforest reserve at Monteverde. Since Costa Rica is substantially more touristy than the other countries that we visited in Central America, the next few days required that we loosen our purse strings and live a little more like holiday makers and less like budget travellers.
This allowed us to enjoy a number of activities including:
- A day of hiking through the rainforest spotting birds and crazy insects and getting our first sighting of a coati (see picture);
- A visit to a frog zoo where we saw all manner of brightly coloured and highly poisonous amphibians;
- A transfer to our next port of call, La Fortuna, by tourist bus and boat across Lake Arenal;
- A night tour to watch the lava exploding and tumbling down the slopes of Volcan Arenal;
- A day soaking in the wonderful hot springs at Eco Termales near to La Fortuna (complete with a visit from a dinosaur sized iguana).
From here we moved on to the Costa Rican capital San Jose for a night (spent at a very modern mall watching a movie with all of the locals in their Saturday night glad-rags). We are now on a bus towards San Isidro and our next calling point for the coming three weeks - volunteering on Earth Rose Farm.
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