January 17, 2023
Jaco and Extreme Canyoning
The difference between this beach town of Jaco and Punta arenas is that Jaco is a great base for lots of activities nearby. Both towns are great for food, though, and I am a real foodie! On of my secret reasons for cycling so much too is so I can splurge and eat anything and as much as I want, as normally, I eat pretty healthy. I finally found my pancakes this morning at a little café right near my hotel! Not like Denny’s still. They open early and have French toast too, so, maybe I’ll try that and load up on some syrup and simple carbs before I head out on the road tomorrow.
As far as activities go, there are just tons of tours that one can do out of Jaco. A Google search revealed probably over 50 unique things you can do here – everything from a city walk to an alligator boat tour to Tarzaning and skydiving! A lot of them are in Quepos and Manuel Antonio National Park, but I am heading there tomorrow anyway as part of my southbound journey, and plan to visit this Nature Park on Thursday. So today, I decided to do an extreme waterfall and canyoning experience!
When I paid for the reservation this morning, there was only five of for a 1:00 tour, but then a group of 16 joined in, so it took an extra long time and we got back late. I was not able to bring my hand-held camera, as they told us not to bring anything that could get lost, and you have to use both hands all the time anyway, but there were two other couples in our group that were from Idaho Falls and one had a camera in a waterproof bag that he gave to a guide to get some really good still pictures of us. In exchange, I got some good video of them, since you can’t really see me anyway since my GoPro was on my helmet. This activity was a lot more fun than I thought actually. I never had the whole fear of heights set in, probably because there was so much safety stuff around me. I’ve never rappelled before. It just took a while to go from one waterfall to the next with that big of a group. I actually felt the coldest today that I have on my entire journey with all that mist and breeze, but it felt good!
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