La Gloria

The beauty of Costa Rica is indescribable!! This weekend I traveled to a little town called La Gloria about 2 hours from the city. We spent the whole weekend swimming in the river, riding horses and driving around in the jeep. I now know what 4 wheel drive is meant for. You would not believe what we drove through. I think my motto for life after this year will be ´NO FEAR´. The embankments that we drove up and the terain that we crossed was nothing I had seen before. We traveled mostly on red dirt roads and across rivers and under bridges because they were unsafe to cross. I felt like a pinball machine bouncing back and forth in the car as it tried to avoid huge potholes in the road. We were surrounded by lush green mountains that touch the sky and rainbow colored parrots flying in the sky above. Did you know that parrots in the wild are never alone but always with their mate. We encountered the red bitting ants, and got a little too close for comfort to a poisonous snake (terciopelo) that was on the path to a waterfall we swam in.