Volcano Activity!

Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano released a column of gas and ash into the sky on Thursday (Friday NZT) in the latest of a series of eruptions.

According to officials, the eruption occurred at 8.37am local time and was a little bigger than recent activity at the site.
Geologist Floribet Vega said that dozens of eruptions have been registered at Turrialba in recent days.

Significant emissions have been reported at the volcano in recent years, but magma has rarely been observed at Turrialba's crater.

There is a video from the Costa Rican agency that keeps an eye on volcanic activity that you can watch here: watch-costa-rica-volcano-erupts

Our tour will be going to see Arenal Volcano, which is further north than Turralba.  You can read about Arenal in a number of places.   Arenal Volcano

For an overview of Costa Rican Volcanos, you can look here  Costa Rican Volcanos, map, and read about the volcanos and see them placed on a map.

La Paz Waterfall Gardens

One of the places we will go on our two week trip to Costa Rica is the La Paz Waterfall Gardens.

Here is their description of what we will see there:

Our Attractions

Five waterfalls, cloud forest and rain forest, safe hiking trails, aviary with 40 species of birds, toucan feeding, marmoset monkeys,  insect exhibit, butterfly observatory and butterfly gardens, butterfly laboratory, two-toed sloths, Capuchin (white-faced) monkeys, black-handed spider monkeys, hummingbird garden with 26 documented species, hummingbird hand feeding in the mornings and afternoons, serpentarium (snake exhibit), Jaguar, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundi, margays, casita de la paz with petting zoo and ox cart, ranarium (frog exhibit), orchid exhibit, heliconia exhibit, bromeliad exhibit.  All of these offered at one place makes us the best eco park in Costa Rica.  

If you want to look directly at their web site, you will find it here:  

http://www.waterfallgardens.com/la_paz_waterfall_gardens.phpLa Paz Waterfall Gardenrs