Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

We set out for La Fortuna Monday morning. La Fortuna will be our home base for the next four nights. Charlie especially has been looking forward to this part of the trip – waterfalls, volcanoes and suspension bridges. We decided to break up the three hour drive with a stop at the Tenorio Volcano National Park to check out Rio Celeste – a wildly bright blue waterfall and river.

The local story for the colour of the waterfall is that as God was painting the sky he dipped his brush in the river. Science says it’s due to certain minerals coated in silicon, oxygen and aluminum from two spectate clear water rivers meeting. The size, suspension and reflection of the sun give the river an incredible blue colour. Whatever the reason, I will say it was beautiful.

We landed at the national park and started the 1.5km one way trip into the waterfall. Charlie did incredibly well, Madeline whined for the majority of the trip and Nora made it about half way in before she revolted. We didn’t end up climbing all the way down the scary steps since by this time Nora insisted on walking instead of being carried but we still got a great look.

We grabbed some lunch at the soda across the street before finishing the journey to La Fortuna. We got settled into our new place where everyone has their own room (hooray!) and got set up for tomorrow.