Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica

On Friday we traveled to the Arenal Volcano. It was interesting to go through the little towns and see a different area of the country. We drove along Arenal lake to Fortuna and stayed at a hotel that was just below the volcano and had lots of thermal pools, a water slide and beautiful grounds.





On Saturday we headed to the other side of the volcano and stayed at the Arenal Observatory Lodge. It is the closest place you can stay to the volcano and has a good view of the volcano.



Arenal is one of 7 continuously active volcanos in Costa Rica and the only volcano where you can see flowing lava most of the time. However, it was cloudy the night that we were there so we didn't see any. We could hear the volcano spitting rocks down the side. The observatory also had a lot of wildlife and was in the rainforest.




We all took a hike to a waterfall on Sunday morning.


On Sunday afternoon we headed back down to San Jose through lots of little towns and beautiful Costa Rican hills.




We enjoyed our time in Costa Rica and loved spending time with the Scoffield family.



James and Maija