Last vacation I went to my aunt’s house. It’s very far from the city, about 7 hours.
There’s a point when you just can’t get there in a normal car, you have to go in a truck or in a very big car so the adventure starts even before getting to the place. It’s a very big mountain in Talamanca and it has a spectacular view and you can breathe the cleanest air. You get incredibly in touch with nature.
The road is made of rock and you find cows and horses in the middle of it.
When I finally got to my aunt’s house I was exhausted so I went right to bed because it was late.
I had forgotten that country people get up extremely early so the next day everyone was up at 4 am! I went with my cousins to milk the cows and collect the chicken eggs for breakfast. At 9 am the heat was increasing so they suggested going to the river and I said yes because they told me it was very near… Yeah right! We walked for about 45 minutes down the hill. Besides my cousins I was with a bunch of friends that were from the city too and when we got to the river we were so tired that we took a huge swig of water.
The water was freezing but the weather was so hot that we got into the water without even thinking about it.
The river had a beautiful waterfall where my cousins always jumped and they suggested that I jump. I agreed. At the beginning I was very excited and brave but when I started to climb the rocks to get to the top I realized that it was very hard work and I fell time after time. At the end and with much difficulty I climbed the rocks and got to the top of the waterfall. I have to add that up there it wasn’t so beautiful.
I regretted going up so I decided that I wanted to go down but we had no equipment and it was impossible to get down without jumping off the waterfall. I thought “man you’ve got to be kidding”; I was so scared that my knees turned into jelly. Finally I knew I had to do it so I jumped off a 6 meter high waterfall and it was awesome! After that I did it like five times more. When we got back I had to do it in a horse because I was so tired that my legs didn’t responded.
I loved the experience. That whole trip was an adventure… from the beginning to the end.
There’s a point when you just can’t get there in a normal car, you have to go in a truck or in a very big car so the adventure starts even before getting to the place. It’s a very big mountain in Talamanca and it has a spectacular view and you can breathe the cleanest air. You get incredibly in touch with nature.
The road is made of rock and you find cows and horses in the middle of it.
When I finally got to my aunt’s house I was exhausted so I went right to bed because it was late.
I had forgotten that country people get up extremely early so the next day everyone was up at 4 am! I went with my cousins to milk the cows and collect the chicken eggs for breakfast. At 9 am the heat was increasing so they suggested going to the river and I said yes because they told me it was very near… Yeah right! We walked for about 45 minutes down the hill. Besides my cousins I was with a bunch of friends that were from the city too and when we got to the river we were so tired that we took a huge swig of water.
The water was freezing but the weather was so hot that we got into the water without even thinking about it.
The river had a beautiful waterfall where my cousins always jumped and they suggested that I jump. I agreed. At the beginning I was very excited and brave but when I started to climb the rocks to get to the top I realized that it was very hard work and I fell time after time. At the end and with much difficulty I climbed the rocks and got to the top of the waterfall. I have to add that up there it wasn’t so beautiful.
I regretted going up so I decided that I wanted to go down but we had no equipment and it was impossible to get down without jumping off the waterfall. I thought “man you’ve got to be kidding”; I was so scared that my knees turned into jelly. Finally I knew I had to do it so I jumped off a 6 meter high waterfall and it was awesome! After that I did it like five times more. When we got back I had to do it in a horse because I was so tired that my legs didn’t responded.
I loved the experience. That whole trip was an adventure… from the beginning to the end.
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