Loca around the world: Hot Spings in Arenal

12/03/2011

4 hours trip from Monteverde to Arenal. Long? Yes... Regrets? NONE!!!!! On the way and about half an hour from the volcan we had a stop to have a look at the biggest lake of Costa Rica which is also the biggest human construction ever done in the country. We had a fresh coconuts milk...but when I said fresh I really mean it! Can you imagine fresher than that:

The Tico just openned it in front of us and put the straw in it. Very tasty!

Getting to Arenal we were able to see the famous volcano. I thought we were climbing a bit on sunday but it won't happen as the last who tried in 2006 died because of the heat and the toxic gaz...huum better to do to the hot springs!

Can you find an animal on the picture?

We had some free time to enjoy our hotel and it was time to go back to work...leading the group to the hot springs and going with them to look after them...LOL Who am I kidding?? Well it's true that it was part of my job but I enjoyed it immensely as you can imagine! It was very relaxing and we had a lot of fun with my guinea pigs as I called them!

With a bar in the middle :D... But of course expensive^^

There were also 3 slides and that were the kids spent most of their time. They weren't allowed to do the middle one because it was a dangerous one. There was an sign to alert you that if you get hurt, you cannot blame it on the company.... Nice sign ;-) You can speed up to 45km/hours and the drop is quite brutal...to be sure it wasn't safe for them, as a good chaperonne, I had to try...hadn't I ? ;-) It was very fast and a bit scary but I had a lot of fun. It's true that for 12-13 years olds it's too dangerous because if you lie down as you usually do in those kind of slides because of the speed, you can badly heart yourself. Just before my 2^nd slide on the middle one (well I needed to check if my first impression was the good one ^^), all the kids were around me because the entrance of the third slide was just next to the middle one and we heard a big “BOUM” and just after a scarry yell. I still went down and enjoyed it a lot but when I got there we saw the girl who had scream and she was crying in her dad's arms. She oppenned her head because she put it back sliding down.... At least the kids were no more arguying to take this one ;)