San Jose to Arenal on the Balsa River
I awoke with an entire butterfly garden fluttering in my stomach. Just two months ago, I had been on a whitewater tubing adventure, but I had not yet been whitewater rafting. I knew that it was perfectly safe, the river routes rehearsed and run day after day, but I couldn't banish from my mind the idea of falling out of the raft and floating down the river with no one to save me.
Last updated: Oct 22, 2023
Check out our San Jose to Arenal on the Balsa River Blog Posts
- A Little Bit of Everything Arenal
- Spelunking in Venado Caverns
- Ending With a Safari Float
- The Bluest Water You've Ever Seen
- A Hike, Hot Springs and a Spa Treatment
- Adrenaline is Good for the Soul
Arenal
Like fireworks at Disneyland, visitors used to flock to Arenal in hopes of seeing the nightly display of glowing red lava flowing from the near perfec....