La Fortuna

Of course with the benefits of city life come the downfalls. There was noise on the street until very late and it started again early this morning. I’m sure things only settled for a few hours.

Breakfast came with the hotel and it was simple but good. Afterwards I convinced Doug not to take a tour but instead to walk with me to the waterfall. The lady at the front desk said that it would only take 20 minutes.  Necesito que practicar mi español porque no fue de 20 minutos que estuvo más cerca de 2 horas. OK that might be an exaggeration but it took a very long time, it was about 5Km and half of that was uphill.

En la cascada tuvimos que bajar 450 escalones para disfrutar de las Cataratas Rio Fortuna. Which meant of course having to walk back up 450 stairs when we were finished. Comigos un taxi para regressar.

The stairs were a bit scary!

Same Location

Same shorts... different kid. I guess we did't throw them out :(

My good friend Miguel told us that we could see the hot springs for free. We just needed to ask some of the local where to go. As you know I am not so socially inclined. Thankfully many people post such information on tripadvisor.com

Nuestro nuevo amigo y conductor de taxi Alvera Vargas nos recogió después del almuerzo y nos llevaron allí.

There were some local tico teenagers drinking and having fun and an hombre with no pants on so we stayed away from him and hung out with los jovenes. We later saw them in town and they honked when they passed us – new friends J

Preguntamos el taxi que parar en una tienda y nosotros caminamos desde allí.