Kalambu Hot Springs
In the morning Ellie and I played more pool. Dd fed some food scraps to the piglet. We met JP, the owner, an American who moved to Costa Rica 37 years ago and spent a year of high school at Marysville, Ca. He is a Costa Rican citizen but he and his wife were ski instructors that brought their kids down here after being disillusioned with the states.
We drove around Lake Arenal to get to La Fortuna and stopped at a German bakery for some breakfast and homeschool. Flaxseed bread, a pretzel, cheesecake slice, coffee, and a chocolate croissant and a take out order of brats came to $30.
We drove over part of the earthen dam for Lake Arenal and stopped for a roadside treat of shaved ice with red syrup and sweetened condensed milk and dry milk powder ($2.40) called copo.
Volcano Arenal came into view as we approached the La Fortuna area. It still puffs smoke and there are active hot springs in the area. We planned to spend the day at one of them.
We parked at Kalambu Hot Springs and ate the brats lunch fron the German Bakery.
The Hot springs has naturally warmed water from the springs and several pools and water slides. It was $20 a person to enter. Kids were $15.
The height requirement was 1.2 m for the slides and Dd was just over 1.1 m but no one checked. Dd, Ellie, and I went on a three person raft down a slide and Ellie loved it but Dd didn't. Thankfully there was no tears, but he was somewhat shocked. He only did one other slower slide after that but Ellie and I did that slide over and over again. There was a nice man-made waterfall you could enjoy a pounding from. We ended up eating dinner here too. A burger, rolled tacos, and chicken strips, and juice set us back $26.
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