Volcán Irazú

 

Yesterday was a public holiday here, so we decided to visit the nearest national park with the volcano Irazú. It's only 50 km from San José and with an altitude of 3400 m above sea level it's the highest mountain in Costa Rica. When we arrived it was very cloudy and we couldn't see anything of the crater...

... but then it cleared up and was very impressive! In the middle of the crater is a turquoise lake.

On our way back we met a farmer on his way home. He was very helpful and explained us a lot about the region and its history. His Spanish was hard to understand but he didn't mind explaining everything three times for us.