So, we went rafting a few days ago in San Gil... oh gees. We had heard all these stories of tourists DYING on class 4 and 5 rapids, so we decided to play it safe and only go up to a class 3. We felt like babies, so to make it a little more extreme we got a tahiti instead of a huge raft...again I say, oh gees. We drove down El Rio Fonse where we met our man-child guide named Diego. Nice kid, no english, not the best guide in the world. Within 5 minutes we were flying overboard, it all happened so fast! It was funny, the first thing that came to my mind as I was tumbling beneath the water was not worry about smashing my head against a rock or how long it would be until my next breathe, but instead I was thinking how stupid it was that I never asked Diego if there were crocodiles or piranhas in the river! He was yelling in spanish something about staying in the center of the river and I was doing my best to translate between huge waves crashing into my face. So we swallowed about a gallon of water, bobbed along, got back in the tahiti and continued on. A little further downstream we saw two dead horses half submerged in the water... after that we had bugars all over our faces from blowing out of our noses so hard while trying to keep the water out! Hey, we`re not sick yet! It was awesome. So many adventures in Colombia! The last few days we have been in Suesca getting a crash-course (literally CRASH, as in crazy pendulum-swing crashing into the wall UPSIDE-DOWN) in traditional climbing! This means there were no bolts in the wall, you just use the cracks to wedge your own equipment in and hope it holds!
Tomorrow we are going to the Amazon to sleep in a treehouse in the jungle for New Years!
PS. NEVER take for granted public restrooms, TP, toilet seats, hot showers, bug repellent, drinking water, peanut butter, traffic laws or good directions.
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