Bust ass from the coast to make it to Arenal Volcano before dark. It's gonna be a great show with all that glowing lava flowing down the side of the mountain. Awesome. Well, it was raining and Arenal was obscured from view. NOW what are we gonna do? "First let's get some more chicharones!" The night consisted of, and ended with, more beer drinking - what else do you come to Costa Rica for. Pura Vida.....right?
We ran into this mad Coati during pee break on the road to Arenal - he smelled Chicharon juice on the Harpers and I was expecting him to attack at any moment.
Shrunken heads - you will see them hanging on random trees as you approach certain villages in the rainforest. No big deal.
From Arenal we headed west toward where we could see blue sky - down in Guanacaste. We decided a detour to Tenorio Volcano National Park and Rio Celeste would be a good day trip before heading to Monteverde. We finally get to the park and it's pouring and the girl working the front desk says: "Well normally the Rio Celeste Waterfall is soooo awesome - an amazing turquoise green and just gorgeous - but today, since it's pouring like hell and you're with the Harpers, the waterfall is a dull greyish-green.....so that will be 15 dollars please......have fun!" Also since it was pouring rain, that meant we would not be seeing any sort of wildlife at all. Luckily they had a few critters pickled in jars for us to look at.
Below is the Rio Celeste water fall as we saw it when visiting with the Harpers:
......but HERE is photo my Mom and Jay took of the same place just a week later.
Shrunken heads - you will see them hanging on random trees as you approach certain villages in the rainforest. No big deal.
From Arenal we headed west toward where we could see blue sky - down in Guanacaste. We decided a detour to Tenorio Volcano National Park and Rio Celeste would be a good day trip before heading to Monteverde. We finally get to the park and it's pouring and the girl working the front desk says: "Well normally the Rio Celeste Waterfall is soooo awesome - an amazing turquoise green and just gorgeous - but today, since it's pouring like hell and you're with the Harpers, the waterfall is a dull greyish-green.....so that will be 15 dollars please......have fun!" Also since it was pouring rain, that meant we would not be seeing any sort of wildlife at all. Luckily they had a few critters pickled in jars for us to look at.
Below is the Rio Celeste water fall as we saw it when visiting with the Harpers:
