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Picture 1 - Our Hike up Maderas to the look out
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Picture 2 - The view from Maderas look out
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Picture 3 - We needed a break after at Hostel El Encante
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Picture 4 - Our Bike Ride to Ojo de Agua - Bike trouble Chris to the rescue
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Picture 5 - Hostel El Encante's Restaurant view
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Picture 6 - Fresh Spring Water treat - Ojo de Agua
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The next morning we took cab to the other side of the island to the small village of Santa Domingo to El Encanto Hostel that is situated on the flank of Volcano Maderas. Within minutes of checking into our rooms the owner had arranged for us a guided hike up to the lookout on Volcan Maderas overlooking Volcan Concepcion. Along the hour and half hike we saw petroglyphs, crazy chirpy large blue birds with mow hawks, a monkey, walked through farmer fields, forests and then the incline up to the lookout which was an awesome view over the island and over the lake and of course a great view of the Volcano. The hike was nicely downhill the way back to the hostel which was good especially for Heather who was punched after the accent.
We had lunch and then took bikes on a ride on the island that almost ended in disaster along the bumpy dusty road as my rear gear shift blew apart but luckily Chris the bike mechanic and our key to the hostel fixed the bolt that came out. Thank goodness the next bit of road was paved. We biked for about half an hour to Ojo de Agua which is just what we needed after a long day of hiking and biking. It is a freshwater natural pool with concrete walls, stone and sand ground filled with natural spring water in the forest and it was very cool and nice spot for some fancy drinks poolside along with a taste of homemade tequila that tickled the throat violently. We swam and read our books it was very refreshing. We saw parrots in the trees and one even flew end to end over the pool. After an hour and a half we were back on the bikes to make it back to the hostel. We showered up caught the sunset and headed down for supper. The owner of the hostel and restaurant had lived 9 years in Canada and 5 other places in the world. The food at the restaurant was awesome and he had the best view from his restaurant, hostel, banana farm. That night we ate good food, had a few drinks, played a game called pigs and called it an early night again as we had to be up early the next day to take an hour taxi to catch the ferry.
We had lunch and then took bikes on a ride on the island that almost ended in disaster along the bumpy dusty road as my rear gear shift blew apart but luckily Chris the bike mechanic and our key to the hostel fixed the bolt that came out. Thank goodness the next bit of road was paved. We biked for about half an hour to Ojo de Agua which is just what we needed after a long day of hiking and biking. It is a freshwater natural pool with concrete walls, stone and sand ground filled with natural spring water in the forest and it was very cool and nice spot for some fancy drinks poolside along with a taste of homemade tequila that tickled the throat violently. We swam and read our books it was very refreshing. We saw parrots in the trees and one even flew end to end over the pool. After an hour and a half we were back on the bikes to make it back to the hostel. We showered up caught the sunset and headed down for supper. The owner of the hostel and restaurant had lived 9 years in Canada and 5 other places in the world. The food at the restaurant was awesome and he had the best view from his restaurant, hostel, banana farm. That night we ate good food, had a few drinks, played a game called pigs and called it an early night again as we had to be up early the next day to take an hour taxi to catch the ferry.
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