Last post from Central-America!

A couple of days after my last post was may 17th, the Norwegian national day. In Norway this is a big thing, so the Norwegians in San Juan (Kjersti, Maren, Kaja, Tommy and myself) decided to celebrate as well. Despite being a bit “tired” from the pub crawl the night before, we started the day with champagne breakfast, fruit and the Norwegian flag. After breakfast we went up to Naked Tiger, a beautiful hostel in the hills overlooking the city. Word soon got out that we were celebrating, and soon everybody joined the celebration of “Norway day” as it soon got called. We had more champagne and strawberries by the pool, and to do a local twist, we had the piñatas. Three of them we got, a spiderman (for Mike), a creepy rabbit and a huge Winnie the Pooh. These were filled with candy, and later bashed to pieces with a bat. Happy Norway day indeed! The rest of the day was spent relaxing by the pool, and in the evening we went out and had a lobster dinner. All in all, a different, but very successful May 17th!



At this point I had stayed in San Juan longer than planned, so the next morning I went towards the Costa Rican border. On my way I caught up with Eloise, Andy and Mattie, and we all joined forces. The first part of the journey went without problems, but when we made it to the border, it turned out that there were some technical difficulties. Thus we had to wait in the sun for three hours. When we finally left, we discovered that we were too late to get our connecting bus, so we had to stay a night on our way to Monteverde. When we finally got there, it was well worth it though. It is high up in the mountains, the nature is beautiful, and it is nice and cool. It started raining the second we got there, but we all agreed that it was nice to be wet from rain instead of sweat, for once. Groce, but true.

Next morning I got up early to do zip-lining / canopying. 21 different lines back and forth across the canyon, including swings and a 1km supermanline. This was very fun, but it was only a warm-up for my next activity: bungee jumping. I was a little bit scared when the cable car started moving, but it was nothing compared to the feeling I had when I jumped off it. The first half of a second is awesome, because you are jumping off. Then you start to fall, and you look down to the river 143mts below you. That’s when the fear starts for real. Going down and up changes from being terrifying to awesome and back again, but when you stop and you are just hanging there, and its quite nice to chill in the middle of the air. All in all, bungee jumping was an awesome thrill, but I don’t know if Ill get the urge to do it again anytime soon.

After this, I left Monteverde, and a couple of days later, I made it to Bocas del Toro, an island outside Panama. Here I have been the last few days, and I haven’t done that much. I have had a couple of dives (very nice dives, but not as good as Utilla), and relaxed in a hammock. Now I'm at he airport in San JJose, Costa Rica, waiting for y flight to NYC. It will be awesome to see all my friends from NYC again, but it is so sad to leave, because it has been an amazing trip! I won’t do a summary (yet), but I must say I have really enjoyed being here, and I have seen and done so many incredible things!

Adios!