Where´s the Volcano?

We arrived the morning of 12/23 in Liberia, Costa Rica after a quick red eye flight from L.A. This was the first time Amy and I traveled during the holidays, so we arrived at the airport 3.5 hours before our fight, just in case. The security line was the SHORTEST we've ever encountered post 9/11!! Liberia's Interenational Airport was pretty dinky.

We decided to make our first stop at a some city called La Fortuna. Apparently, La Fortuna is the main hub for lots of "adventure" tours. Primarily, however, much of the activity is due to the fact that there is an active volcano just outside the city. Unfortunately, when we arrived we scarcely knew where the volcano was as it was covered up by the low fog that had blanketed the mountain peaks

After deciding on our hotel, we looking for a credible tour operator to book all our trips while we were at La Fortuna. Since we decided to stay in the area for two and a half days, we broke up the days in the following way:

Day 1 - Afternoon - Jungle trek with a view of the volcano and an evening at the local hot springs
Day 2 - All day - White water rafting through a local river. It´s supposed to be class III and IV rapids. We´ll see
Day 3 - Morning - Canyoning. We´re going to rappel down 100 foot to 200 foot waterfalls. This should be interesting
Day 3 - Afternoon - Safari Boat Trip. Our leisurely boat ride...I hope. The Runyans did something like this and they said they really enjoyed it.

Instead of taking a horseback ride over to Monteverde, we´re just going to do the jeep-boat-jeep ride (taking a "jeep"up to a lake, crossing the lake, then "jeeping"over to town) over to the Cloud Forest. We decided that we´re going to do the zip lining through the trees in Monteverde. Gotta save something for that town. We´ve heard rumors the place is kind of over rated.

Gotta go. I´ll finish up the blogs when we get back this afternoon.