We had very ambitious plans for this day too, and setting our alarms for 5:30 am we planned to wake up early and scale the town's 3000 meter volcano. Well, our eyes didn't want to cooperate and it was 7:30 by the time we made our way to the volcano. In reality we only walked up 1,300 meters or so (well, not really only), becuse the town was already at 1,400 and then we took a tuc-tuc to the beginning of the park which was at 1,700 m. You're gonna have to turn your head cuz this computer wont cooperate with me to rotate the photo. Anyways, above is the volcano that we climbed.
We procured our very talkative guide (more for security against the amply-touted ladrones than for guide's sake) and begain our ascent of the mountain. Well, lets just say that we died a lot more than we did on the bikes the previous day. We walked through Maize fields and coffee plantations once again, and went on until it became forest, and then tropical jungle towards the top. We made it up to the top of this inactive volcano in 2hrs and 40 minutes, completely exhausted.
The view was more than worth it. We could see almost vertically down to the lake, with the little boats making their crossing and the manicured farmland 2000 meters below. We layed on the warm rocks for a while, taking in more of the view, and then it was back down the mountain. The descet was a piece of cake and we were sitting, famished, in a restaurant an hour and a half later. One massive pizza, 2 cokes a gatorade and a bottle of water later we were already feeling better and we decided to end the day by resting our legs in the newly opened swimming pool down by the lake.
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