Collecting fire wood in the raima nd cloud before we got to the campsite
Setting up camp
Our sweet little campsite on the side of the volcano
Trying to get a fire started to cook our dinner
A cool toad I found
Roasting marshmallows over our fire
The crater clears of cloud for a few seconds for us to see the steaming vents
We are stoked the sun has come out
We saw heaps of these long tailed birds that were supposibly quezals, nicaraguas national bird
Walking through bean fields
Boiling mud pools like in Rotorua
8 November 2009
We woke to the sound of rain in the morning, but were optimistic it would clear before we started our hike. We went with Quetzaltrekers a non profit organisation run by voluteers so our guides were 2 girls from Austria. To our shock they insisted we each carry 9 liters of water! So with very heavy packs we caught a local bus and started our walk, we managed to get about an hour into it before the rain returned and it didn't really stop until the evening. The crater of this volcano is very deep with bubbling lava at the bottom and very steep sides that you can lie down and peer over if you can handle choking on sulpher gas occasionally. Unfortunalely, although we tried twice that evening, all we saw was cloud. Luckily we managed to get a fire going and we had a nice dinner and roasted marshmellows. In the morning we got up to see the sunrise but once again we only saw cloud. It did clear up enough for us to see a small part of the crater and we walked back down with sunshine. We saw some bubbling mud pools and headed back to Leon.
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