Lake Crossing from Monteverde to Arenal

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The short and cool way to travel between Monteverde and La Fortuna is by taking a boat and crossing Arenal Lake. This service, half tour – half transfer is a scenic, fast and newest way to go or come from, the Monteverde area to La Fortuna (Arenal Volcano Area). Around 7:30 a.m. we start picking everybody from the hotels in Monteverde for a 30 minutes microbus drive. There we will aboard into a very comfortable and safe pontoon boat for a 30 to 40 minutes (aprox.) ride to Río Chiquito, a little town at the other side of the lake. Arenal Lake is the largest and the most important lake in Costa Rica, it was man made in 1974 to provide hydroelectric energy for the country.  It is also a place where you can find different kinds of resident and migratory birds.  Sometimes mammals can be seen in the surroundings, also great views of the Arenal Volcano when it’s clear. Once at Río Chiquito, we’ll leave the boat and make a short break to strength the legs, after, another 1  1 / 2 hour microbus ride to get to the hotels in the Monteverde area, sometimes during the rainy season this transfer could take longer.