Waterfalls and volcanoes

Our last two days are at a working cattle ranch on the border of Rincon de la Vieja national park.  It's back up in the moutains, just north of Liberia (where we fly out of on Friday morning).  We picked it because it sounded great (volcanoes, not touristy) and also because it's only about 45 minutes to the airport.

Since we got here pretty early, before the room was ready, we hiked to a close waterfall for a swim.  Yup, we had this place to ourselves!!

It was a 30-minute, hot hike out to it, so it felt good to get in the water, even though the water was pretty brisk! 

We saw some cool lizards on the hike!

After the hike, our room was ready, so we dropped off all our stuff, then headed back out to soak in the hot springs!  You can paint yourself with volcanic mud, let it dry, then rinse off before going back into the hot springs.  It was so relaxing, and the process of mudding and rinsing left your skin feeling really soft!

Our room was really close to the stables, but fortunately the wind was in the right direction to not make it smelly!   We booked a 2 hour horseback ride for tomorrow afternoon.

Hmmmm...this place also comes with pets!  There were a bunch of VERY friendly dogs all over, this one came right in when invited (though he wouldn't come in until we did!)

 Another great place for relaxing, outside our room.