The La Fortuna area offers countless hiking adventures, and beautiful scenery to go with them. Be it the dazzling La Fortuna waterfall, the mysterious changing colors of Río Celeste, the heights of the Hanging Bridges, or the breathtaking views of Arenal…
Arenal by Tyler Wenzel A sleeping giant looms over the town Stirring at times with steam as her crown How long shall she slumber? Who can say? To sleep and awake for both people pray For tourists the world over she is…
The paid hot springs in the La Fortuna area are a great place to spend an afternoon, but if you want to just relax your muscles on the cheap after a long day of hiking El Chollín is the place…
In the years I have spent in La Fortuna, I’ve come to know and befriend many of the tour guides and salesmen around town. With that knowledge you quickly learn who to trust and who to avoid. There are a…
Ask a Tico the first thing that pops into their mind when you say La Fortuna and the answer is very likely to be “las aguas termales” or hot springs. Although Arenal Volcano has long been the tourist draw to…
Costa Rica is home to two international airports. Juan Santamaría International Airport in Alajuela (SJO) and Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport in Liberia (LIR). Due to their lengthy Spanish names (being named after a war hero and a President, respectively)…
La Fortuna is a glut with restaurant options, even if you had the desire and budget to sample them all, it would take a long time just to eat at each of them once, let alone enough times to really…
When it comes to water perhaps no country reaches the irony level of Costa Rica. It is recognized as one of the ‘greenest’ (both literally and figuratively) countries on the planets. It is the only country in Central America where…
Most major towns in Costa Rica will have some kind of farmers market, or as it is called in Spanish “La Feria”. In larger cities these farmers markets may be held every day, or multiple times a week. In La…
La Fortuna has four primary options for grocery stores (since you probably aren’t planning on shopping in the mini markets that you’ll be able to find on most every street). There is the cheapest, local place named “Palí” on the edge…