Rafting Rio Pacuare

What an adventure!



We went with Stacie, our school friend, and headed out for a day trip to the Pacuare river. It was a 2 hour bus ride to the river and breakfast was included. We were famished and could not wait for the gallo pinto and fruit, which is our staple food group here.

We rode with 3 people from Denmark and 2 local Tica women. We were paired with the 2 Ticas in the rafting. One of the girls from Denmark had dreds and Stacie took the opportunity to ask how long she had had them, how to make them, and necessary requirements of maintaining them. Quite interesting really. We exchanged information with the 2 Tica gals to meet up for dancing and speaking Spanish!

Now to the river. We thought we had accurately applied sunscreen to our bodies, but efficiently missed our legs as both of our legs are red from knee cap to mid thigh.. quite funny actually! We our also quite sore as the river rafting was a four hour ride. We stopped for lunch on the shore half way through and gorged ourselves on peanuts, turkey and ham, bread, tortillas, vegetables, fruit, and iced tea.



We passed an old train track where Ticos were jumping off into the river. It was quite impressive and daring as the train track must have been around 30 to 40 feet in the air! Our guide was 18 years old, the baby of our raft considering the average age of the passengers was actually 22 or 23. He told us he had been doing it for a year.



Another one of the guides enjoyed flirting with Stacie and was a enjoyable fellow to be around. We got his contact information as well and may connect with him around San Jose sometime as he lives near us in Sabanilla.