Arenal volcano

After looking at the volcano 🌋 from a distance for two days, today I did a bit of hiking 🥾 at the foot of the mountain. This morning the summit was still clear, but when I hiked there in the morning, clouds ☁️ gathered around the summit - which then disappeared 🌞 again towards the end of the hike - probably it didn't want me near it 🤪🤣.

Arenal Volcano was Costa Rica's most active volcano until 2010, and one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world. It has been studied by seismologists for many years.

It is an so called active andesitic stratovolcano and lays in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km northwest of San José, in the district of La Fortuna.

It measures at least 1,633 metres high. It is conically shaped with a crater 140 metres in diameter. Geologically, Arenal is considered a young volcano and it is estimated to be less than 7,500 years old.

The volcano was dormant for hundreds of years and exhibited two craters at its summit, with minor fumaroles activity, covered by dense vegetation. In 1968 it erupted unexpectedly, destroying the small town of Tabacón. Due to the eruption three more craters were created on the western flanks but only one of them still exists today. Arenal's eruption from 1968 to 2010 is the tenth longest duration volcanic eruption on Earth since 1750. Since 2010, Arenal has been dormant 😴.Read more