Volcan Poas National Park

Volcan Poas National Park

Poasito, Costa Rica

Reviewed July 5th, 2006

Restrooms at this visitor center were spotless, wheelchair accessible and featured the only automatic flush I have encountered in Costa Rica. The place was cleaner than the international airport. Restrooms on the trail between the visitor center and the volcano featured a strong, dang nasty odor as a way to guide blind people over. Men's also featured the usual trough urinal, but the thing was totally horizontal, making splashback an obvious hazzard. Much like the ovservation deck overlooking Poas, the second largest active crater in the world, the sign by the urinal should read "stand back!". The volcano itself features no lava, but active fumaroles spout yellow smoke that can be seen and heard from a distance, surely fulfilling someone's fantasy of witnessing the largest smoke bomb ever created. Even on cloudy days this volcano is far cheaper and more easily seen by visitors than the grossly overhyped and outrageously expensive Volcan Arenal.

- Justin Teerlinck

RESTROOM RATING: 9
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