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Day 3 – Mendoza & Penitentes

Today we woke up after 10 hours of sleep, finally catching up the previous days of sleepless nights. We went down to breakfast and visited the local hire shop to get our rented equipment and finally complete our equipment checklist. Good thing we did because directly following it our guide came to our rooms to […]

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Day 2 – Mendoza

Just past midnight we boarded our flight to Argentina, a quick 3 hours in the dead of night. Thankfully i was able to take one of my 1000 naps of the day. We landed in Mendoza at 6am and after breezing through the Argentinian border, we were able to find all of our bags had […]

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Day 1 – Flight to Mendoza

Today we woke up at 4:30am and quickly finished packing before driving to the airport, there even though we arrived about 2 hours early, we were stuck in a long queue for checkin, which unfortunately took us an hour an a half to complete. This meant that when we finally reached the checkin counter, we […]

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Day 35 – Manuel Antonio

Today i was picked up by the tour company i would be doing the day trip with at 5am. I said goodbye to my friends from the tour and headed out in our minivan. Our first stop was at a fruit stand by the side of the road, where they made us try all different […]

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Day 33 – Rafting

Today after one last breakfast with our family, this time we a type of stuffed cheese crepe, we started our way from Coope San Juan to San jose. However on the way we stopped to do another activity, rafting down a river with 2-3 level rapids. When we got to the starting point, they told […]

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Day 32 – Coope San Juan

Today after receiving a delicious breakfast from our family, we joined the other people from our group and were given bikes to go biking in the hills surrounding Coope San Juan. However the bikes they gave us were so bad, that mine barely had any brakes so i had to be carefull on any downhills. […]

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Day 31 – Coope San Juan

Today even though i woke up relatively early it was hard to do anything in the morning as the rain was pouring, so instead we just went to sushi for lunch, before getting on the bus to our next stop, Coope San Juan, a cooperative made up of multiple families a few hours awy in […]

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Day 30 – Gravity Falls

Today we decided to go do some canyoning, so we had to wake up ridiculously early once again to get on a bus to drive to the area we would be canyoning. When we got there, they gave us our equipment and after we were all ready we walked through the forest to reach the […]

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Day 29 – La Fortuna

Today was another travel day between 2 cities in Costa Rica, so we got up early and took a bus to get down the mountains of Monteverde before we reached the Arenal lake. There we took an hour boat ride to the otherside of the lake before getting back on another bus and ariving in […]

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Day 28 – Ziplining

Today in the morning we decided to go do some Ziplining, so we went to the nearest ziplining place where after a briefing we started the adventure course. the course took us through some small hanging bridges and zip lines where we had to jump up on the cables to help the attendants attach us […]

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