You can do a Google image search on the "Arenal Volcano" and find some pretty spectacular pictures. I would know because I have many of them on my computer (at home, at work) and on my phone. I've been staring at these pictures for months as we planned the trip to Costa Rica. I've read about this volcano and the 4 other "active" volcanoes in Costa Rica...a lot. I've got the pictures and I've learned all sorts of interesting things. I know that this tiny little country sits atop the Pacific Ring of Fire, which means that it is not at all uncommon for super-heated rocks to go flying out of the earth. I know that Arenal has been consistently active since 1968 when this great chimney of the earth blew its top. I know that there are about 100 other volcanoes scattered around the country. And I know that the people of Costa Rica are apparently so fascinated with these things that they make paved roads so people can drive right up to them, they have even made some of them wheelchair accessible and installed viewing decks around the cratered tops of others. They like their volcanoes.
