COSTA RICA BLOG #2

COSTA RICA BLOG #2 Best trp I’ve ever had. Ziplining has always been on my bucket list as well as Tims’. So naturally, when we signed up for our excursion with the entire group in tow, we were beyond thrilled to be able to mark ziplining in the jungle off of our “to do” lists. The ziplines were just the icing on the cake. We started our day off bright and early and took a bus ride to the first stop of the day. We were greeted by many helpful workers and escorted by our tour guides to horse corrals. After we were set up on our horses, each with a personality of their own, we headed up a rather steep and bumpy ride. To our surprise, after the first zip through the jungle in our harnesses, we were told that we had nine more lines to go! All of us assumed that we would do one, possibly two, zip lines through the canopy. Our guides laughed at this and explained that there were a total of ten. After zipping through various parts of the treetops, hanging all sorts of different directions, we landed at the bottom. With our hearts racing and adrenaline pumping, we excitedly changed and headed to the 400-meter waterslide. The waterslide was far from a lazy river, as water rushed through a hand operated canal and flooded the cement slide that we sat on. At some points in the huge slide I couldn’t believe that something like this was legal and we all agreed that it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen in the United States. It ended in a warm pool and we were greeted with dry towels and fresh oranges. We were thrilled at this half of our day and little did we know, there was still much more! We had ignorantly assumed that lunch would consist of packed sandwiches and bottles of water. We were taken as a group to a small restaurant above a swimming pool, in the jungle. The food was absolutely delicious, completely organic, and we all agreed that it was our best meal of the trip yet! After lunch, our group was guided to another part of the jungle where we received a mud scrub all over our faces and bodies. After these dried, we washed off in the cool river and walked up to a beautifully crafted cement swimming pool that had a natural hotspring flowing into it. Our group had perfect timing and we had the pool to ourselves for the majority of the time. After this relaxing part to our thrilling day, we dried off and changed, just in time for the summer rain to start pouring. The trip home was spent by almost all of us dozing in and out from our exhausting but amazing day. We all had dinner and turned in early for the night so that we could be up and ready around 5am to depart to Nicaragua the following day!