{"id":252,"date":"2009-01-02T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anirama.com\/costarica\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-01-02T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T05:00:09","slug":"hot-springs-and-elephant-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/hot-springs-and-elephant-towels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Springs and Elephant Towels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last stop of the day was at the some hot springs. The spot is a popular hangout for locals and tourists alike and is fed by water naturally heated by the volcano. There are a number of pools, and as you go higher up the hill the pools get hotter. We were imaging a spa-like experience of relaxing mineral pools, but instead it was very commercialized with tiled pools featuring loud 80\u2019s rock blasting out over the in-pool bars (\u201cwet bars\u201d, vs. the \u201cdry bar\u201d near the entrance where you can sit at a table). We toured all the pools, spending most of the time in one with waterfalls and in a cooler pool below it. Interesting, but not a highlight of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Much more interesting were the elephant towels on our bed when we got back to the hotel. Towel animals showed up at a number of our hotels, but the elephants were far and away the coolest. Each one is made of a bath towel for the legs and a hand towel for the head and ears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3195833556\/\" title=\"Elephant Towels by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3345\/3195833556_60d372ffcb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Elephant Towels\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elephant Towels<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last stop of the day was at the some hot springs. The spot is a popular hangout for locals and tourists alike and is fed by water naturally heated by the volcano. There are a number of pools, and as you go higher up the hill the pools get hotter. We were imaging a <a href='https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/hot-springs-and-elephant-towels\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35,58],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-02","tag-hotel","tag-towel","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}