28th December 2024
Today began with my alarm going off at 3:45 a.m., after a night of trying to get as much rest as possible. As soon as the alarm rang, we rushed to get dressed, putting on all the clothing we had kept warm inside our sleeping bags overnight. Within 40 minutes, we were fully geared up […]
2nd March 2022
Today after waking up early once again (theres no sleep on gadventures trips) we were driven to the expedition company’s headquaters where we took the equipment we were going to need for the following 2 days. after driving for about an hour outside of the city, we grabbed breakfast and started our ascent of Acatenango. […]
8th November 2019
Antoine woke us up bright and early for a drive up north for about an hour for a “surprise”. He refuses to tell me what it is. When we arrive at the port, there are three buildings, and Antoine leads me to one that says “dolphins”. A man asks us if we are there to feed […]
26th August 2017
We woke up with every intention to make it to the finish line by early afternoon. We could not start the rickshaw. The spark plug was broken and some random Indian had come and help us. Finally, we got on the road. Everything was going smoothly until the spark plug just completely stopped working and […]
19th August 2017
Today Antoine wore his t-shirt inside-out for the whole day. Our day was from 5 am to 9 pm. The original plan was to wake up early and go to an animal sanctuary, unfortunately, it was closed for monsoon season. So we drove on the highway and nothing happened until about 4 pm. Sunset is […]
5th January 2017
Today we woke up early as usual at around 4 am, we first had breakfast before leaving our camp at 5h30 in one of our campsites vans with another 6 people from our group, and took a 2h bus on the bumpiest roads imaginable, with what felt like no suspension. We arrived half asleep at […]
28th December 2016
Today we woke up at 11 pm (on the 27th) to grab our “breakfast” aka biscuits and tea. We left at 11:40 on our way to the top, we were the second group to leave the camp for that night. We started walking through the valley, zigzagging our way up to make it easier, but […]
24th July 2014
today a few of us got up at 3 am and started hiking up to Parrot’s peak ( one of the highest peaks of the island – 980m) through the jungle in the dark until we arived at the top 3 hours later just in time to see the sunrise and get amazing pictures, before […]