This Monday one of the German volutneeres, Jana, had free from work and wanted to go somewhere outside of San Jóse. It was a perfect timing to try out my motorcycle for a first road trip, and seeing my second volcano. So I asked if she wanted to go see Volcán Irazú with me. She is a positive girl, and I promised to drive nice and safely, so she joined me!
It was a loooong drive getting up the highest volcano in Costa Rica, but we made it!
We can not complain about the weather or view, but unfortunately there hasn't been too much rain there lately so we were informed that there was no "lake" in the volcano.
It was rather dry, but it also gave a nice view of the crater.
We got some nice views around the top of the mountain before the clouds came with some rain.
On our way down I drove really slow and careful because the road was getting wet. I thought the roads were so warm from the great weather earlier that the rain vaporised immediately, but I later heard form my friend, Ale, that it's a chemical reaction because of some particles from the volcano that causes the vaporisation.
On our way back my motorcycle just stopped when we got in to Cartago. It just wouldn't start again. We had no idea what happened, or what to do. Luckily it happend when we got in to the city and we could ask people where the closest moto shop or garage was. There was one just a few hundred meters away, and we met a guy with the exact same motorcycle. At first he couldn't get it starting, but somehow it started after a few tries. He went for a test drive and figured out that everything was in good condition, so I could safely drive back to San Jóse. First we stopped for lunch in Cartago. The drive back to San Jóse went almost perfectly, until we got to Guadalupe where my motorcycle stopped again. Also this time it took a few tries before I got it running again. All in all we had a great trip with some funny experiences, but I will get someone to check my motorcycle so this problem doesn't happen again.
¡Muchas gracias por un gran viaje! Vielen Dank für eine große Fahrt!
