I have finally caught up on my journaling, and I am writing
this actually on the 7th.
This morning bright and early, which equals 7:30 am, we boarded a bus
for Poás Volcano. The ride was so
beautiful, if a bit nausea inducing because of all the curves. It felt like we went straight up the side of
the mountain for about two hours. Poás
is still an active volcano, not lava but sulfur fumes, and it resides in a
crater that is a mile wide. When we
finally got to hike up to the crater, which is at about 8,000 feet above sea
level, there was a great deal of cloud cover.
So we took another hike straight up the side of the mountain
(in this I am not kidding, it was a very steep pathway), to
see another volcano that had been dormant for many hundreds of years. Poás, when we returned, was finally clear
enough to see, and it was spectacular.
There will be photos posted. The
water within Poás is so acidic- around 0-1 pH- that it doesn’t allow anything
to grow in the crater around the volcano.
And it would melt the flesh off of your bones if you decided to skinny
dip. The trip back to the city was
definitely worse; you try getting a coach bus down the side of a mountain smoothly
and not induce motion sickness in any of its passengers. We stopped for lunch and then departed at
Veritas. Tonight we are supposed to be
going out again with our brother and sister tica, so I will write about that
tomorrow.
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