Last week we went to Costa Rica in a trip with our school "Los Nogales". In this trip we were supposed to make different trips to natural places in the province of Guanacaste. In one of this trips we were supposed to walk through the volcano of "El Rincon de la Vieja", and from this volcano we were supposed to see the "Arenal" volcano. Both, volcano "Rincon de la Vieja" and volcano "Arenal" are active volcanoes from the seven active ones. Both volcanoes are located in north western Costa Rica in the Province of Guanacaste. 
"Rincon de la Vieja" means in English "the corner of the old lady" stands 1,916 meters above the sea level. The name of the volcano comes from a tribe that believed that an old witch lived in the top of the volcano and when she was mad she would send smoke. Its first and largest eruption was in 1765. One of its evidences is that it lies within a large caldera. The last eruption occurred in 1998. Actually the volcano has nine craters and the main one is 500 meters of width and 100 meters of depth. We saw different types of forests. The first one was dry forest. It had big and tall trees .The next one was humid forest. It had hot and humid weather but it was colder than it was in the dry forest. It had very small trees. The last one was fog forest. It was full, covered with fog and the weather had changed a lot but more cold. Every time we got up the weather was colder and the trees were smaller and smaller. These three types of forests were seen through all the hike almost to the top of the volcano. We felt very strange in this hike because when you took one step the surroundings were different so it was a little bit confusing for us but that was one of the best hikes we had in COSTA RICA!!!
By: Ana Rueda, Martin Carbonell, and Lorena Rivera.
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