Not sure why I even took the time out of my day to take this tour after my last volcano fiasco (details in previous post, Vacations Gone Bad) but I figured there probably wasn’t much of a chance of another volcano blowing up while I was staring into it’s caldera. Luckily, I was right and this tour was quite uneventful, aside from the heart palpatations I got as I walked down the wooden stairs and up to the railing within a few hundred feet from the bubbling, steaming, rotten egg stench of the caldera.
As the tour guide was talking and joking about us all being dead if this thing decides to blow, I thought I might just hyperventilate and told my husband that I had enough and was ready to leave. He must have been trying to make me work through my emotions or something because he assured me I was going to be just fine and we would leave when it was over. He was right and I lived through another volcano tour!
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| Town of Soufriere (French Word meaning: sulpher mine) near the volcano. |
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| Soufriere at night with the majestic Pitons in the background. The Pitons are volcanic plugs, formed when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano. |
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| Old Catholic Church, Soufriere |
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| Caldera, rather unimpressive compared to the Masaya caldera or Yellowstone Park for that matter. |
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| The hot Sulphur Springs water running into pools for soaking. |
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| Sulphur Springs Mud Bath. They say the water has age defying qualities, I had to get me some of that! |
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