25th December 2022
Today is Christmas day which made it a bit more complicated to travel, as there were practically no taxis in the city, and after struggling to order one by phone or uber, I downloaded a local app and managed to find one that bought me to the airport, earlier than planned but better early than […]
24th December 2022
Today I woke up early and decided to get ahead on my logistics before having to go to the hospital to get checked out. I ended up calling my insurance to start getting everything sorted, and managed to get my flight changed for free to leave the next day. After breakfast, I met with someone […]
23rd December 2022
Today I woke up not feeling so great after having had a difficult night, where I felt sick nd couldn’t drink any liquids in the night/ sleep throughout the night. I went to breakfast to see the group and talk to my guide so he could give me some recommendations on what to do. After […]
22nd December 2022
Today we woke up at 5:45 am, and straight away had to pack all of our stuff and tent, ready for our 6:30 am breakfast. Following breakfast at 7, we started walking down to the river where we were met by some mules. The mule driver armed with his 3 mules, ferried us 2 by […]
21st December 2022
Today we were woken up by the birds chirping outside at around 6am and had to start packing the inside of our tent, putting away our sleeping bags and organising everything into our bags. Once that was all done, we took everything out of the tent and started dismantling it and packing it away, before […]
20th December 2022
Today after being woken up by the birds chirping and the trucks roaring from the highway next door, we got up and finished packing all of the bags we would need for today. We first dropped off all of the equipment that would be carried by the mule before making our way to the mess […]
19th December 2022
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 […]
18th December 2022
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 […]
17th December 2022
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 […]
23rd March 2022
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 […]
21st March 2022
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 […]
20th March 2022
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. […]
19th March 2022
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 […]
18th March 2022
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 […]
17th March 2022
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 […]
16th March 2022
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 […]
15th March 2022
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 […]
14th March 2022
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 […]
13th March 2022
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 […]
12th March 2022
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 […]
11th March 2022
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 […]
10th March 2022
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 […]
9th March 2022
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 […]
8th March 2022
Today we got up and walked outside of the city to the Copan Ruinas, a set of famous Mayan ruins that still have a lot of intact sculptures. We walked about 20 minutes outside of the city where we met our guide of the ruins (who thinks he’s a martian). Thankfully even though he was […]
7th March 2022
Today we got up at 4 am and loaded our stuff onto the bus for a long journey to Honduras. Thankfully we were able to fall asleep on the bus and had a break about 3 hours after leaving to get breakfast in a local chain restaurant. We then continued on our journey to the […]
6th March 2022
Today after sleeping in we decided to visit a local macadamia farm, after struggling to get an uber we drove to the outskirts of the city where we arrived at the farm. There they showed us around the farm telling us how the macadamia are grown and how they are processed after they fall from […]
5th March 2022
Today we woke up early and had pancakes for breakfast at our homestay before heading back to the center of the city where i picked up my painting and got to meet the artist who made it. Following this we took a boat to sail us accross the lake back to the city where a […]
4th March 2022
Today after catching up on sleep, we boarded a boat to go to Casa del mundo, a local hotel and restaurant nesting on the cliff next to the lake. There we lounged around for the morning, jumping in the cold water of the lake to go swimming and sipping lemonade on the balconies overlooking the […]
3rd March 2022
Today at around 3:45 we started getting ready to summit Acatenango, ready for our departure time at 4 am. We put on our gear and left base camp, going through the volcanic ash terrain, again with an extremely high slope, which meant that for every 2 steps we took, we went back one as we […]
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. […]
1st March 2022
Today we woke up at 3:30 and had to rush to get onto the boat to the mainland by 3:45 where we boarded a bus for a 7-hour bus drive to Antigua Guatemala. our bus ride was a mostly smooth ride, except for the few times we got stopped by the cops for nothing and […]
28th February 2022
Today I woke up early at 5:30 to go on a kayak tour to go track down the howler monkeys who live around the hotel. We got on our kayak and first kayaked through the river which was extremely still, whilst our guide played the theme music to Avatar. As we reached the other bank […]
27th February 2022
Today after waking up around 7 we got into a bus and drove for about 5 hours to our next stop, Rio Dulce. There, we took our luggage off our bus and put it on board of a boat, whilst we boarded a second boat to our hotel for the next 2 nights. Our boats […]
26th February 2022
Today we woke up early at 5.30 am for us to reach the border to Guatemala, just before it opens. We reached the border at 6 and after lots of bureaucratic things we had to do, we finally managed to reach the third country on this trip, Guatemala. After all of this, we got back […]
25th February 2022
Today, we woke up a bit later than usual (7 am) to go on our day’s adventure. We decided to do the ATM cave (unfortunately it doesn’t dispense money) which stand for Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave. the Bus picked us up at 8 and drove us about an hour away to the start of the cave, […]
24th February 2022
Today we woke up at 6 am and I decided to go try out a local speciality for breakfast called fry jack, which is fried bread with a stuffing of your choice. so I got a fried ham and cheese fry jack. we then went back to the hotel and I grabbed all of my […]
23rd February 2022
Today I woke up at 5am and tried not to make noise when I woke up to not disturb my roommates but alas, i accidentaly dropped my metal bottle so i ended up waking everybody. I then left the hotel and walked in the empty island to reach the diving center. There they served us […]
22nd February 2022
Today I woke up early around 6:30 and decided to get out of bed and walk around before my meeting at 8am at the diving place. So i got ready, the first one in my room to do so and went out into the city. I went to get cash but ended up stopping at […]
21st February 2022
Today we woke up at 3:30 am to go on to our next country Belize. We got on the van at 4am and drove a very unconfortable 3 hours until we reached the border. There we had to go through many many bureaucratic hoops before we would be allowed to go into Belize. First we […]
20th February 2022
Today I woke up at 6 am and couldn’t fall back asleep, so I decided to update this blog (got to be productive for my fans) before we left at 7 am for today’s adventure, visiting the Tulum Ruins. We got on the bus and drove about an hour away, but ended up being an […]
19th February 2022
Today I was once again woken up naturally earlier than I needed to be, so I finished packing my luggage and decided to go watch the sunrise on the beach. I got there and got to enjoy a beautiful sunrise whilst the beach was being cleaned of algae. I then went back to the hostel […]
18th February 2022
Today I woke up naturally at 6:30 before the sun even got up, so I decided to be productive and go get attempt to find a cash machine that wouldn’t charge me to take out money, but unfortunately, after looking at 4 or 5 I gave up and decided ill just get snacks to make […]
17th February 2022
Today I woke up and finished packing my bags before getting in the car to go to Charles de Gaule getting caught in the tons of traffic around Paris, but I still managed to make it 3 hours early, aka the bare minimum. Thankfully I even made it through check-in and security so quickly that […]
