Costa Rica Day 6

The gods were in our favor today it seems! We woke up nice and early to eat our final meal in La Fortuna and pack the bus, and amazingly Arenal was visible in its entirety for the first time! I ran and even put off my morning shower to make sure I got some memorable pictures of the volcano visible over the city, especially over the central church. After breakfast and once the bus was packed, we began our next drive towards our new home for a couple days, Monteverde. We drove our way around Arenal Lake, a manmade lake that is the largest in Costa Rica. At its center is a submerged town that was destroyed when Arenal erupted almost 50 years ago. We made multiple stops throughout our drive around the lake, before stopping and having a small lecture next to some wind turbines on the hillside.

Once this lecture was complete, and we took some photos, we got back onto the bus and drove to a small town and school, which has a single digit number of students. On this specific day, two students, who were cousins, and their mother/aunt were there. They told us about their school and education, the classes they took, their favorite subjects, and what they want to be when they grew up. We then shared the same information with them, before they let us see their little cultural museum and shared some of the local cheese with us. It was a fascinating experience, learning the education here in Costa Rica, and how similar it is to the United States, but also how different it is.

After the school, we headed to our new hotel in Monteverde. Once we checked into our rooms and dropped our stuff off, we sat through some EXTREMELY heavy rain, which put our next activity, ziplining, in doubt. However, the sky broke just in time, and we were able to make our trip a couple minutes up the road to take part in the ziplining course. It wasn’t a bad course, but the last two really long, really high lines really made it worth it. At the end of the day, it was another awesome day in Costa Rica with some amazing people. Not much bird watching, just some Emerald Toucannets spotted as we were leaving the zip lining location.

Happy Birding!

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