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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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Day 27 – Monteverde

today we woke up at 4 am to get to our next destination and final country of this trip, Costa Rica. we drove for about 2 hours and got to the airport ridiculously early, as it should be. There we checked in and boarded our one hour flight to San Jose in Costa Rica. When […]

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Day 26 – Surfing

Today i once again got up early to try out surfing. we went down to the black sand beach, where our we met some locals who would become our teachers. They taught us how to pop up using some drawn surfboards on the sand whilst dogs would run between their legs. Once our lesson on […]

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Day 25 – Playa Palmarcito

Today after breakfast we went to do a brief visit of another volcano located near our camp, however one that is now extinct. there we went in a forest and learnt about some of the local flora and fauna, as well as got to see some beautiful views of the other volcanoes. After the brief […]

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Day 24 – Santa Anna Volcano

today after waking up early we started our hike from our camp to the top of the Santa Anna Volcano. It took us about an hour and a half to get to the top. There we saw the crater of the volcan which was filled with turquoise blue water due to the sulfur being released […]

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Day 23 – Cerro Verde

Today I went to get breakfast from a local bakery, before going for my morning activity, tye die in indogo using local plants that were used to create the color. I went to the shop where they explained how the plant was prepared to extract the blue color, and how that color was then used […]

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Day 22 – Guerilla Trails

Today we decided to go on a tour to learn more about the Guerilla and the war in El Salvador. We first got to meet Don Fernando who was one of the guerilla members during the 12 year war that happened here. He told us some stories about what happened, and how and why he […]

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Day 21 – Suchitoto

Today once again was an early morning, we got on our bus at 6am on our 7 hour journey to El Salvador. On the way we crossed through some areas which are clasiified as “do not travel here unless absolutly necessar” by the french government, but thankfully the police were nice and only stopped us […]

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