Where the sun had been » La Fortuna http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica Ryan and Bri, South America, Two Thousand Niner Wed, 20 May 2009 02:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 La Fortuna to the moon! http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/15/la-fortuna-to-the-moon/ http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/15/la-fortuna-to-the-moon/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:37:41 +0000 rbosinger http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/?p=73 We spent a couple nights in La Fortuna which is suppose to be quite a touristy place. They have all kinds of Canopy tours and such, and it is the town situated by Volcano Arenal. However, it rained heavily the entire time we were there. I never got to see the Volcano, and this was Brianna’s second attempt (she did a tour of Arenal a couple years ago but it was clouded over). This is a very common occurence. We didn’t care though, we stayed in a really cool and cheap hostel called Gringo Pete’s. It’s very intimate because the main hang out area is the size of an apartment with the kitchen attached. There is free coffee, and because of the rain we got to talk to a lot of cool people while sitting around drinking coffee. Here’s some odd pictures I took of that Gringo Pete’s:

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We stayed up in that room.

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This is the room.

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The only thing we really did was go to the Baldi Hot Springs with a couple from England and Texas we met at the hostel. There´s two options: the free hot springs, and the pay ones. We chose the pay ones because it was raining and we heard the free ones could be a bit sketchy, plus we would split a cab with the couple. It cost about $20 each, but we spent all day there. They have many different pools with different themes.

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We had enough rain and decided to hit the pacific coast where we had heard the weather was much more dry, and a lot more sunny. So off to Montezuma we went…


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