No trip to Costa Rica can be considered complete until you've visited the Arenal Volcano.
● Arenal Volcano is a Costa Rican national park.
Considered by many to be one of the most spectacular regions in the country, Volcan Arenal area are Costa Rica's hottest tourist destinations.
The Arenal Volcano is one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world and presents a truly majestic sight, as it spews molten rocks and ash from its summit on a daily basis.
With regular eruptions, you can hear the rumbling and see steam rising as lava flows down the sides of the volcano.
The park has two volcanoes: Chato, whose collapsed crater contains an emerald lagoon surrounded by forest, and the perfectly conical Arenal. The park is most directly accessed from La Fortuna, but is also easily accessed via Tilarán and the north shore of Lake Arenal.
The Arenal Eruption of 1968 .
The fateful day was July 29th, 1968. The people of La Fortuna were kept up the night before with intense tremors from the build-up of seismic activity. At 7:30 AM the first explosion formed three new craters in the cone-shaped volcano.
Lake Arenal near the famous Arenal Volcano is the largest in Costa Rica.
Lake Arenal was enlarged to 3 times it's original size to form a basin for the hydroelectric project that now produces 70% of Costa Rica's electricity with an area of 85.5km (33 sq. miles). Surrounded by rolling hills that are partly pastured and partly forested and dominated on the east side by the imposing perfect cone of Volcan Arenal.
