Poas

Yesterday we took a trip to Volcan Poas. It’s about 2 hours away from San Jose, up in the mountains. The air temperature got colder and colder as we went up. Just 10 km. away from the park, we stopped at a souvenir/snack shop by the road and bought some of the reddest sweetest strawberries I’ve had in a long time.

We thought we were going to freeze when we got out of the bus, so we decided to walk to the crater as fast as we could. The day was very grey and overcast, so we were afraid we wouldn’t be able to see the crater, since we heard that it’s often covered by clouds after 10:30, but when we got there at 11, the crater was clear. It was such an amazing site. The water temperature in the crater is about 104 degrees, and the air temperature was probably close to 50 (we could see our breath when we left), so there were clouds of steam rolling out of the volcano.

After admiring the volcano for awhile and taking a ton of pictures, we took one of the trails through the woods. The woods were actually a little bit spooky. It was dark and overgrown and foggy. But there were also a lot of neat plants- giant fern trees and bromeliads and other plants with giant leaves.

We ended our day with a trip to the coffee shop, where the hot chocolate I drank was super yummy, and warmed my freezing hands.