{"id":263,"date":"2014-06-12T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/?p=263"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:42:34","slug":"irazu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/2014\/06\/12\/irazu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Irazu &#8211; The beauty in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In life we are always being torn between two opposite polarities, and settling somewhere in the middle where it can get exhausting and ugly.\u00a0 Today, we visited the Parque Naciolnal Volcan Irazu and I noticed the beauty in living in the middle of the two opposite polarities, destruction and devastation when a volcano is erupting, lava and ash causing obliteration to anything in its path balanced, with what we saw today, the lush, fertile soils providing an abundant of vegetables and grazing fields for live stock for the people of Costa Rica to thrive on.\u00a0 As we climbed higher and higher and pushed through the cloud tops, we arrived to Irazu\u2019s crater and I felt as I was on another planet, where our moon, met the Amazon jungle. \u00a0I realized at that summit there is beauty in the balance of polarities, that you need both; soft and hard, hot and cold, light and dark, to be able to enjoy and prosper in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264\" alt=\"DSC_0681\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0681-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0681-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0681-1024x682.jpg 1024w, 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loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-267\" alt=\"DSC_0694\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0694-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0694-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0694-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0694-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" alt=\"DSC_0708\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0708-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" alt=\"DSC_0739\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0739-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0739-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0739-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0739-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-272\" alt=\"DSC_0749\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0749-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0753-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" alt=\"DSC_0756\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0756-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0756-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0756-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0756-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/costarica2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/DSC_0788.jpg\"><img 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