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Here are some highly recommended travel details for Monteverde (updated May 2009)

 Where to stay:

• Cabinas El Buho (La Fortuna, Costa Rica)
  • Each room has a relatively private bathroom with hot water, TV with Cable, fan, and a balcony
  • Cost: $8
  • 2479-9503, Cell: 8855-5348
  • 4 blocks from central park, in a residential area (ie - quite and peaceful), with a pretty sweet balcony view of the volcano.

What to do:

• Hike the Arenal Volcano National Park. It's awesome. Watch chunks of rock bounce down the side, see the smoke and glow, etc..
• Go to Arenal Falls. Incredible. Steep hike, and wear swimming clothes down.
• Ziplining/Horseback Tour/Frogetarium/Maleku cultural experience
  • A lot more fun that I was expecting. Surprisingly unpretentious for a full-blown touristy operation. Cost about $45 for a student, if I recall correctly.
  • 2479-9762
  • www.arenalmundoaventura.com
• Baldi Hot Springs - about $18/person for 5pm-10pm (student)
  • buy tickets through an agent in town. They're cheaper. See the driver listed below or ask through Cabinas El Buho above.
• The cheapest place to eat with the best variety is Soda La Parada, across from the park.

How to get there and back and around:

• Public Bus
  
  • Go to the Norteatlantico bus station por Barrio Mexico. Also called the San Carlos bus station.
• Highly recommended that you rent a car or get some transportation while there. Adobe Car rentals will give you their cheapest dealio for about $50. If you go in on it with some friends... that's a good deal. It's near the central park.
• This guy can help you get around:
  • Mario Santamaría Rodríguez
    8394-6875
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