(Thursday-Friday, 14-15 May 2009)
Google map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=pt-PT&geocode=&q=vulcan+tenorio+costa+rica&sll=10.31627,-85.094604&sspn=0.332368,0.700378&ie=UTF8&ll=10.957371,-85.317078&spn=1.326654,2.801514&z=9
There are same places that make you stay for a bit longer, just so you can look better at the beauty around you. You try to memorise every little detail: the view, the sounds, how it feels in your body and mind to be there.
And then, when you interrupt that period of quasi-meditation – which can take more than one hour sometimes - and decide to leave, you turn back again to have one last glimpse at the place. You try to take that final and perfect picture in your mind. And you cannot stop thinking “will I ever come back here?”. And incredible sadness involves that thought.
It’s interesting: there are thousands of amazingly beautiful places in this world that I’ll never be able to see in my lifetime, and those are the ones that should make me the sadder; but no, the ones that I’m lucky enough to experience are the ones that feel like irrecoverable losses.
Rio Celeste, in the Vulcan Tenorio Natural Park is one of those.
It was good to leave Costa Rica with one more of those places this country got me used to. Beautiful and deserted. All for myself.
Thank you.
Google map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=pt-PT&geocode=&q=vulcan+tenorio+costa+rica&sll=10.31627,-85.094604&sspn=0.332368,0.700378&ie=UTF8&ll=10.957371,-85.317078&spn=1.326654,2.801514&z=9
There are same places that make you stay for a bit longer, just so you can look better at the beauty around you. You try to memorise every little detail: the view, the sounds, how it feels in your body and mind to be there.
And then, when you interrupt that period of quasi-meditation – which can take more than one hour sometimes - and decide to leave, you turn back again to have one last glimpse at the place. You try to take that final and perfect picture in your mind. And you cannot stop thinking “will I ever come back here?”. And incredible sadness involves that thought.
It’s interesting: there are thousands of amazingly beautiful places in this world that I’ll never be able to see in my lifetime, and those are the ones that should make me the sadder; but no, the ones that I’m lucky enough to experience are the ones that feel like irrecoverable losses.
Rio Celeste, in the Vulcan Tenorio Natural Park is one of those.
It was good to leave Costa Rica with one more of those places this country got me used to. Beautiful and deserted. All for myself.
Thank you.
A not-luxurious-at-all-mountain lodge in the middle of almost nowhere, with only another tourist as company. The way I like it
Waterfall in river Celeste. Worth one of those last glimpses…
The place where the water turns “azul celeste” and gives the river its name. People say that when god painted the sky blue he washed his brushes here… Apparently it’s the result of a chemical reaction between the water and minerals in the river bed. The water remains this blue all the way downstream from here
Nice and warm thermal waters in river Celeste. Compliments of Vulcan Tenorio, just next door. Alone here, for more than one hour. Thank you!
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