White Water Rafting is the BEST!

White Water Rafting is all and more then I ever thought It would be. Our tour not only was white water rafting but I would also say a jungle tour as we had to go 1 1/2 deep into the jungle and up the mountains to get to the starting point. We were on a large open big military type 4x4 vehicle and it was slow going in some parts cause of the incline, the one lane road and bridges, cliffs, and the animals on the road. I think the roads really looked more like trails.

The back country is just amazing. I would think that this is how it was when the USA was being settled back in the 1800, relatively speaking. The Europeans would of probably thought of the USA as I see Costa Rica today. We have seen places that no human has probably walked on and some places that have no electricity and no phone lines. Three or four little shacks on the side of mountains and we saw 2 villages of 100 people that had to get to their village over the river in cable cars.

The tour guides worked really hard on this adventure plucking people and things out of the raging waters. The river we were on is rated a 3 or 4 out of 5. It depends on the amount of water in the river. For us they said it was close to a 4. There were 3 rafts on our trip down the river and our raft was the only one were nobody fell off. I say off cause you sit on the side of the raft not inside the raft. We lost some things from the raft like water bottles but that's all. Our raft was us and a family from Boston with two girls.

The rapids, rocks, and trees were something else. The other two rafts had people falling off and the guides worked really fast and extremely hard to pull them out and then they even retrieved the oars. That is, the guide from the raft that lost people or things was the guide that had to pick them up. The other guides did not help cause they were busy with their rafts. It seemed to me that the people on the other rafts did not know what to do or could not do it so the guide had to do all the work on retrieving what falls out. I think I would of been able to help if our raft had any people fall out. Like the head guide said "Do't worry if you fall off and we can't pick you up, just turn right when the river flows out into the ocean and you will get to your resort".

We all did get a safty and procedure talk at the beginning that I thought was really good. This is something that anybody that likes adventure has to do. Ofcourse here you have to also enjoy the primitive country. It also rained on us as we went down the river but it didn't mater as we were completely wet anyways from going in and out of the water and being hit by a wall of water in the rapids. We were wet, wet, and wet.

I can't say enough but we both looked at each other at the end and said WOW this is terrific and we would do it again and again.

Till next time, Take Care, Jorge