Well, Arturo attempted to ruin our day AGAIN but we had a great day anyways!!
We were supposed to go on a tour of the Rincón de la Vieja volcano national park with Cesar, the guy that gave us the serpentarium tour. We were so excited cause he's a biologist and he would've told us so much about the plants and birds and animals and he would've found them for us to see. BUT ... Arturo gave him the day off, completely disregarding that we had a tour booked with him. We were SO disappointed. LUCKILY Arturo wasn't there and the kid that was, completely knew we got screwed over so he tried his best to make up for it and have us some pretty awesome deals to make up for it!!! We got the tour of the national park with Johnny instead. Johnny is like the nicest guy ... So eager to please and make sure we were really happy. He had no knowledge about most of what we saw, but he tried his best and we appreciated it! We actually saw a tucan and some spider and howler monkeys on the tour. We saw a mini volcano and mud pools and a pool with boiling water. It was like a mini mini Yellowstone without a geyser.
We saw a small waterfall and the trees and scenery were beautiful. Again, butterflies everywhere! It's a dry forest and its cool to see all the volcano stuff right on and around a lush forest. It was beautiful!! (I really need to find new adjectives ~ there aren't enough to adequately describe Costa Rica!)
From there we walked to the Oropéndula waterfall (the one we saw our first day - but that day was overcast so we really wanted to go back and see it with sunshine) It was sunny and just gorgeous, stunning, breath-taking!!! We went swimming and even crawled up the rocks to stand behind it. There were so many butterflies in here, we saw so many blue morphos and monarchs! There was a few times when I just swam towards the waterfall, and just looked up at it and saw butterflies and the falls in the sunlight ... It was seriously one of my 5 most favorite moments in LIFE!!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!! I really just wanted to freeze that moment and remember it forever!
We walked back out and Christina had messed her knee up, so Johnny said one of the guys at the little snack shop we are walking to was a masseuse ... So he came over and worked on her knee for 5 min. Then they took us to the Thermal Hot Springs!!
They were SO PRETTY in the daylight and they are just these natural volcanic hot springs pools by a stream. So peaceful, feels so good & so warm :). Unfortunately a bunch of tourists arrived ... Not as good when it's crowded ... The worker there told us there was one pool kind of tucked away that no one was using so we went over there and it was all secluded and nice!! It was by an even prettier spot on the stream and no one was there!
We were done by 4 and the next shuttle was at 4:40 but judging from their track record, it was gonna be late and we wouldn't get back till after 5:00 and we had to pick up our cd of pix and videos!! So we decide to walk 5 km back. Ha!!!! We started walking, giant uphill followed by another uphill ... We stared regretting our decision. And after walking about 10-15 min, this car drives by with a cute, young French couple and they ask us where we are going and offer us a ride!!! WE ARE SOOOOOO LUCKY!!!! They were also staying at the hotel and had a room right by us!!! Oh my gosh, we were so thankful to them!!!
Because of all that ... We had missed lunch so we were STARVING for dinner!!!
Dinner, pack, sleep and 4:15 am pickup for the airport.
Oropéndula Falls
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