White water rafting and isla tortuga

last weekend was one of the most exciting weekends here yet! on friday and saturday, we woke up at around 5 am to catch the bus for our adventures. Friday began with a drive to the rapids. We saw the indegenous people, they had wire cables in the sky above us they used to transport stuff. It was very strange. The day began with breakfast at this cool place that had straw hut type roofs with delicious food; rice & beans, granola & yogurt, eggs, pineapple, papaya. Then later, me and my team headed out to class 3 ish rapids. We had to synchronize our rowing to move effectively. The scariest part was that when the rapids were strongest we had to lift our paddles out of the water and just let the river take us! Our guide was pretty cool (no where near as cute as the turkish white water raft guy though :( ). He did let us jump into the water a lot. There was not much sun out and so it was freezing! (but awesome). I felt so strong!, I was very happy that day. We were surrounded by gorgeous mountains and the area was not very disturbed by humans ; pristine! y muy tranquilo (peaceful), We stopped midway on the river and had lunch under straw huts. Very cool as well. A path led to the bathrooms but also to a gazebo type wooden structure (cool) On the way home, like many times while driving in Costa Rica, there was a massive accident in front of the underground tunnel (it is under a mountain) and we ended up waiting a good 2~3 hours!.

isla tortuga!- took a wonderful cruise ship to the island! 1st delicious cr breakfast at the gift shop. I tried some coffee liquor that I wanted to buy but I do not think i would be able to get it past customs back to the US! It was a very touristy day and the things here were the classic Costa Rican artesanias that people buy. Once we arrived to our cruise ship, there was a tiny pool on it, giant nets that we could sit on and look below at the ocean!, an open bar too! I got a pina colada, and i felt like I was in paradise! On the cruise ship I danced some salsa dancing (all those lessons at CRLA had to pay off sometime yea?)  with my costa rican friend Joao. Once we arrived to the white beach with torquoise water we went snorkeling and saw rainbow fish and a great assortment of others as well. Later i went banana boating and one friend attempted to climb to the front from the back and we all fell off haha. Again we had a cool lunch under straw huts and played some volleyball on the beach. : D
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