Our favorite, soak spot is the Thermalitas in La Fortuna near Arenal, and it's a great price to boot! We brought in a whole roasted chicken, made ourselves a salad and drank cubra libras from a can (in a can! pre-mixed rum and Coke!). Then the rain started. Then the explosive thunder and lightening. Not to be deterred, we waited a bit, until only the distant lightening brightened the sky to daylight every ten minutes. Soaking in the hot, hot natural spring water in the evening with those distant flashes was some kind of magical, let me tell you!
La Fortuna waterfall, by the way, crowded and pricey and that's all I have to say about that.
We slept ate and toured the farm at Finca Educativa Don Juan. I love this place. Framing the volcano at Arenal, Don Juan's farm is thick with flowers and edible plants, which they serve to guests for breakfast. The tour was fascinating as we tasted and tried both the delicious and the horridly bitter medicinal plants that he was growing there. Steve's favorite part was the Math Garden, which at first seemed like an oxymoron until Don Juan explained that he had planted his garden in such a way as to visual describe difficult concepts, like pi and how to find area. Also, he pointed out the brilliant mathematics in nature (and the prevalence of the number 5!)
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Our favorite, soak spot is the Thermalitas in La Fortuna near Arenal, and it's a great price to boot! We brought in a whole roasted chicken, made ourselves a salad and drank cubra libras from a can (in a can! pre-mixed rum and Coke!). Then the rain started. Then the explosive thunder and lightening. Not to be deterred, we waited a bit, until only the distant lightening brightened the sky to daylight every ten minutes. Soaking in the hot, hot natural spring water in the evening with those distant flashes was some kind of magical, let me tell you!
We slept ate and toured the farm at Finca Educativa Don Juan. I love this place. Framing the volcano at Arenal, Don Juan's farm is thick with flowers and edible plants, which they serve to guests for breakfast. The tour was fascinating as we tasted and tried both the delicious and the horridly bitter medicinal plants that he was growing there. Steve's favorite part was the Math Garden, which at first seemed like an oxymoron until Don Juan explained that he had planted his garden in such a way as to visual describe difficult concepts, like pi and how to find area. Also, he pointed out the brilliant mathematics in nature (and the prevalence of the number 5!)
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