Arenal Volcano hike & Hot Springs Back

The tour begins with a trip to the far west side of Arenal Volcano, where you'll spend about one hour exploring the Silencio Trail.

Our expert bilingual naturalist guide will find the animals, point-out indigenous rainforest plants and educate you about their medicinal properties.

Frequent sightings include: monkeys, wild boars, two types of toucans, White-Nosed Coatis, Oro Pendula birds, Golden Eyelash Vipers, Boa Constrictors, White-tailed Deer, Great Curassows.

Before dark, you'll continue to the observation point, which offers the closest, most direct lava flow vista.

Relax, enjoy a drink and listen to the incredible sounds of the volcano. If cloud cover is high enough, expect to see a dazzling. Your guide will explain the history of this magnificent volcano as you listen to a variety of frogs, toucans, and insects, watch thousands of lightning bugs.

The Arenal Volcano is active since 1968, it constantly ejects gases, water, fumaroles and explosions with pyroclastic material emissions, and sometimes the eruptions are accompanied with powerful thunders.

The lava flows come out of the crater with a temperature up to 1 000 Centigrade. As the lava flows down it slowly cools off.

The tours ends up at a local hot springs, where you can enjoy of swimming pools with thermal water and have dinner.
The hot springs options are: Tabacon, Ecotermales, Baldi Hot Springs (upon availability).