Finally on the road again!

I went from San Jose north to see the Volcano Arenal which is still active:


And there are great hotsprings (up to 40 degrees) right at the base of the Volcano where you can go swimming:






And lot's of beautiful flowers in the garden of the hotspirngs. Flowers that grow naturally here and are sold for a small fortune back home...




And this is the Volcano at night!

Well, to be honest, I stole this picture from the a website.
I did see some activity of the Volcano at night but not as perfect as this and it was hard to take pictures too.
If you want to know more about this Volcano and where I got this picture (taken on Feb 12, 2006) go to:
http://www.arenal.net

But to end this, another of my pictures take form the Lago Arenal, on the way to Monteverde, or to be correct: to the Monteverde (and Santa Elena) Cloud Forest Reserve.

So off to the next adventures in Central America!

I flew from Sao Paulo via Panama City to San Jose in Costa Rica for my first stop in Central America.

San Jose is of course latin american but there is a lot of north american influence (incl. Mac Donalds, KFC, Shopping Malls and all that). A lot of people speak here english and there are also many US tourist:


And for the first time since I got started on Dec 27, 05 I got really tired of travelling!
So I just hung around for a couple of days, enjoying the garden and the pool of the Costa Rica Backpackes, spent the days reading, sleeping,... basically doing nothing much!

Friends of Philipp in Sao Paulo got me in contact with Patricia (a Columbian living in San Jose) and she took me out on the weekend: first a fun eventing with friends of her's in San Jose and then on Sunday we all went to the Volcano Poas near San Jose which you can see in the background...

...or not, well there were lots of clouds and we actually couldn't see the crater but we had a great day anyway!