Hotel Wagelia Turrialba
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Roaaad Triiip # 2
... of blind food drops for them (ie leaving food drops in a safe place for them to find as we won’t be around to deliver them personally). The communities are always helpful and we managed to leave one of the food drops at a nice lady’s house!
Then it was a another couple of nights at beach stop locations on our way South and through the border – as to where one of the police pointed at me and said to Bjorn that he could have picked up more of me in ...
No more drinking......arrrggghhhhh
I cannot believe I have been here 3 weeks already and we have supped our last beers and other alcoholic beverages for the next 3 months – OMG how are we going to cope! And the venturers have all arrived (second in importance to the alcohols issue!!). Firstly came the HCVs (host country venturers) basically those from Nicaragua and Costa Rica – and they are a very lively bunch indeed! Lots of dancing involved as a ...
Jungle Camp & Zinc Oxide
... and pans for a small hike. All good in theory however even walking a few kilometres uphill in hot and humid temperatures very much took their toll. Coupled with the obligatory grid references and a map led to a very tiring few days for one and all (especially me!).
We also had to content with crossing a river (twice) up to about my bum with your pack on. Deciding I didn’t really want to get wet I decided that trousers would hinder so ...
Rafting one of the best rivers in the world
... preoccupied with that and not paddling. I would have been able to maneuver just fine because all it was was a shallow section with some large rocks to avoid but one of the other boats came up and bumped me a spun me and then when I tried to get everyone to paddle to fix my line it was too late. We got off the rock though and then bounced onto another one but we got off that one just fine and continued on.
We shower and change and look at ...
First weekend off
... like 8th best in the world. He was great fun and a great guide.
I dont have any photos of the rafting but someone else had awaterproof camera and took photos so they should end up on facebook at some point.
Been eating lots of nice food here. And last night me and Mark went out on our own for a drinking night out which was the funniest night out in ages. We sang Barbie Girl (badly) on kareoke and befriended a couple ...
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