Visit Arenal - 5 Things You Will Love & Hate about Arenal, Costa Rica
The Monteverde Cloud Forest & the Arenal Volcano & National Park are two of the most iconic and important travel destinations in Costa Rica. Here we talk about the best and the worst parts of visiting Arenal, Costa Rica.
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Arenal is Costa Rica’s most active volcano, and holds about 50% of the countries biodiversity. It's known for it's hot springs, and large variety of adventure sports.
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La Fortuna - Arenal Volcano - Costa Rica (HD)
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La Fortuna is a rural city located in San Carlos, in the province of Alajuela, Costa Rica.
La Fortuna received its name after the eruption of the Arenal Volcano in 1968. La Fortuna was originally called El Borio before the day of the eruption. In 1968, the Arenal Volcano erupted to the west, killing all in its path, including two villages. El Borio (La Fortuna) was located on the east side of the volcano and was untouched. After the eruption of the volcano, El Borio was renamed La Fortuna, which means the fortunate, referring to the towns luckiness during the eruption.
La Fortuna has the airport which is nearest to the Arenal Volcano, though many visitors also arrive via automobile, to the resorts and hotels in La Fortuna, Castillo, Palma, Monteverde, or Tilaran. Arenal is often cited by scientists as being in the top ten or top 20 of the world's most active volcanoes.[1] La Fortuna is less than 10 km from the peak of Arenal and less than 20 km from the entrance to Arenal Volcano National Park (the entrance is west of the peak, whereas La Fortuna is east of the peak).
Other than the volcano, La Fortuna has tourist attractions such as the La Catarata de la Fortuna, a waterfall that falls from a height of 70 meters, several resorts with natural hot springs temperate enough to bathe in, other day spa services, and day-trips which involve horseback riding, whitewater rafting, hanging bridges, a sky tram, zip-lines, mountain bike, kayak, stand-up paddleboard, and ATV or dirt bike rentals, butterfly farm and Venado Cavern tours, bungee jumping, Laguna Cedeno, El Salto Swimming Hole, and canyoneering.
La Fortuna has a medic station but serious injuries require a medivac (or long travel on roadways), a police station (and another is on the way to El Tapon), gas station, 3 banks, 3 groceries, restaurants (in addition to those in the resorts), post office, and hardware store.
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Arenal Volcano The photos at right are views from the village of El Castillo, on the southwest side of the Volcano, about 25 km west of La Fortuna and about 4km up the road from the Arenal National Park entrance. Additionally, there are great views of Lake Arenal and the Monteverde Cloud Forest from road up above El Castillo. In the evening hopefully you will see lava eruptions that can be quite spectacular set against the black night sky, but often it may be too cloudy to see the magnificent lava flows. Tours to the National Park usually start out in the early afternoon and include walking for about an hour through lava rocks before reaching El Mirador, the best place to view the eruption of the volcano. There are also possibilities of skipping the lava rock walking and go straight to El Mirador. Most tours state that they will stay for a hour/hour and half at this place, but if there is nothing to be seen probably a lot less. Also be aware that it might be chilly, so bring a jacket. The tours come in a variety of options: with buffet dinner and entrance to the Tabacon hot spa $64, with entrance to Baldi hot spa $30, just the tour $25. There is also a possibility of a no frills tour by mini-bus to El Mirador and back to Fortuna for $10.
Fortuna waterfall by horse $25. Stone steps lead to the bottom. Take a swimsuit for the pool in the lovely stream below. The entrance is accessible by road, so a cab works fine too. The entrance to the waterfall is about $10 and the ticket booth closes at 5pm. However, once you pay to go in, you are free to stay as long as you'd like. It's about a 10 minute hike down to the waterfall and 20 minutes back up.
Lake Arenal, is just west of the Arenal Volcano and can be seen as you drive over the dam on the main highway to Tilaran. Much better views of the lake and volcano can be seen from the hills above the village of El Castillo, which is located 9 km from the main highway on the Arenal National Park road. Activities on lake include boat tours, fishing, kayaking, and wind surfing.
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Arenal Hanging Bridges and La Fortuna Waterfall Tour
The Arenal Hanging Bridges and La Fortuna waterfall tour one of the most popular tours in La Fortuna and Arenal, Costa Rica. Walk 3 kilometers through the rain forest by way of hanging bridges and then walk 400 steps down to a stunning waterfall. Also includes lunch and transportation.
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Today we’re going to do the combination tour of the hanging bridges and the La Fortuna waterfall in Arenal. We’re going to go with Jacamar Naturalist Tours, and this is a combination and it also includes lunch so we should have a really nice walk down to the waterfall and the hanging bridges, should be a really fun day.
We’re here at the Mistico Hanging Bridges and here actually by Lake Arenal. Behind me well arenal Volcano is a little covered in clouds but we’re going to go on a couple hour hike going through I think 13 bridges through the rainforest so hopefully we’ll see lots of cool wildlife and get some nice views.
We’ve been walking for about 1 hour and we finally reached the first hanging bridge and this is one of the longest in the Mistico Hanging Bridges walk. We’ve seen lots of cool trees, lots of plants, some monkeys so hopefully we’ll see some more wildlife, it’s been a very nice walk so far.
We’re walking on one of the hanging bridges and our guide just found a viper which is a common snake found in the Arenal area so let’s go check it out.
We’re visiting the La Fortuna waterfall, this is a beautiful waterfall in the La Fortuna area. It’s only about a 15 minute drive from town, it’s very popular it’s one of the most popular activities and we’ll show you guys why in just a second.
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We head to the Arenal Volcano National Park, where we walk through beautiful trails up to some of the lava fields from previous eruptions. And Jesse and I chat about how we feel about tourists (lol) and try to answer the question, is there a difference between a tourist and a traveler? (Hint: we had different answers.)
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