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Costa Rica - a map of the hotel and Arenal Volcano.
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Costa Rica - this is a postcard; we never actually got to see the volcano.
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Costa Rica - at Arenal volcano we stayed in this nifty bungalow at Montana de Fuego; these all face the volcano, but it was clouded in the whole time we were there.
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Costa Rica - this is the view from the back of our bungalow at Montana de Fuego, looking over a pasture into the valley of Rio Arenal. My hike took me along the far edge of this pasture and steeply down into the valley to the river.
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Costa Rica - this map close-up shows my hike, which began in the center of the map and switchbacked down to the waterfall at the lower right... which is far more glorious on this map than in reality.
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Costa Rica - here's a neat little waterfall, perhaps 6 feet high, along the path of my hike. The rock at this spot was especially soft and so the texture was totally shaped by the water.
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Costa Rica - a beautiful thin waterfall, perhaps 10 feet high, and needle thin, on my hike at Arenal.
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Costa Rica - on my Arenal hike, the dense forest was dripping with the rain, and there were little streams everywhere.
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Costa Rica - on my hike, there was often little difference between the trail and the stream.
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Costa Rica - this was the waterfall at the end of the trail, next to Rio Arenal, a dripping stone face with teeny streams of water.
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Costa Rica - the beautiful but tiny waterfall at the end of the Arenal hike.
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Costa Rica - Rio Arenal, on my hike.
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Costa Rica - Rio Arenal, on my hike.
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Costa Rica - next to the river were these plants with huge leaves (note the Altoids case in the lower part of the photo).
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