The National Tourism Chamber asked tourists not to neglect the Poás area altogether, where businesses have been hard hit, many located outside of the security perimeter.
Vulcanologists conducted an inspection of Poás and found rocks of various diameters ranging from 40 centimeters to 2 meters (1.3-6.5 ft) that had been hurled as far as one kilometer through the air.
A sudden thunderstorm passed over the popular tourist destination on Saturday at about 12:30 p.m. Before park rangers could clear the scenic overlook, lightning struck roughly 25 meters away from the three, Poás National Park Administrator Redy Conejo told The Tico Times.
Poás Volcano National Park is an otherworldly place where mossy green forests surround a steaming acid lake. And it's not a bad place to go on Costa Rican Mother's Day.
Costa Rica's Poás Volcano spewed gas and water more than 300 feet into the air on Wednesday, the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica reported. Seismologists registered three consecutive phreatic eruptions starting at 2:45 p.m.
The interior of the Earth has large unexplored sources of carbon, and a group of 35 scientists are meeting at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) Thursday to share the latest advances and research on the subject.
