Volcan Arenal Goes to Sleep

Volcan Arenal, 2008

Volcan Arenal, in north central Costa Rica, was erupting roughly every hour when Dan Gunter and I visited back in the early nineties. It now has been completely quiet for one year. I returned to visit the volcano with Shannon,  Catalina, and my parents in 2008 and found that the town had grown massively, with almost all the tourism revolving around the volcano and its eruptions.By that point, these had dropped to about every two hours or so.

Here's the full story from the Tico Times: Arenal: No lava, no cry

Here's a photo we took out the window of our rental truck in 2008 (you can click on photos in this blog to get a slideshow view).