We woke up early and got ourselves ready, packed up our stuff in the appropriate bags and waited for our pick-up and ride to the river. We were the only people on the bus, and we mostly lounged around as we drove. It was a three hour drive to the river from San Jose, and we stopped to have some breakfast (RiceYBeans!) on the way. We got to the river and, sure enough, it’s just Jess and me rafting in today. Which is okay, because it’s all class 1 and 2 rapids. Simple enough stuff. I’m sure our guide could have done it on his own.
So we got our safety lecture and and did some practice strokes before setting off. Almost as soon as we started, we stopped and our guide led us up along a river nearby. There was a spot there with a couple of lagoons and a short waterfall leading between the two, and so Jess and I swam around in it for a while. It turns out you can go over the waterfall face first, a little mini water-slide. We tooled around there for a while and had quite a lot of fun. Jess was in heaven.
We set off again, over a few class-two rapids (my favorite) and touched down at the lodge. Very pretty. No electricity, but somehow that just added to the charm. We met everyone for lunch. Two other couples there, both on honeymoon. One from NYC and the other from Israel. We were to raft out with the NYC couple tomorrow.
After lunch, we grabbed a quick nap and then Chulo, another gude, and the guy that would be rafting us out in the morning, took us to another waterfall. One that you could climb up and then jump into. More fun had by all. Then we got back to our room and waited for dinner, by candle-light, while it poured rain. Dinner was nice, but I’ve decided that any meal with more than two courses is just too darn much. You either end up wasting food or stuffing yourself until you get sick.
Then we went to sleep.
-N
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