Like a white wall reaching up into the sky.
The view to the volcano Arenal is nothing but clouds. Some people come here for a week without ever seeing the main attraction.
I suspect the operators of tourist buisnesses to have fog machines installed on the slopes of Arenal, so that the paying guests will stay a day longer. Or two…
But today we were lucky (again). Right after our breakfast the veil of clouds was lifted a bit and opened the view to the cone shape of the volcano.
In our lodge we lately discovered the joy of playing the good old “scrabble” and so before starting in the day we couldn´t resist another game.
But than we finally went to see a nice animal-refuge in the middle of farms.
There we were totally alone and spend a lot of time trying to find a few animals.
When we left from there, we had butterflies, many birds, squirrels, lizzards, kaimans, a poisonous dart frog and a sloth on our list.
the frog.
So again, our trip was worth it and to even increase the pleasure of the day, we will visisit some hot springs tonight after dark.
There we can sit in the hot volcanic water, watch the stars and the glow of the lava and only have to hope that the water temperature doesn´t rise. Otherwise they would have to evacuate the hot springs, since the rising water temperature would indicate a higher activity level of the volcano…