Horseback riding in Costa Rica

Horsebackriding Wednesday June 20th was interesting and scary and fun – all wrapped up in one! For one – it was actually pretty expensive – 1800 norwegian crownes (300 usd) – but it was for all five of us, for 5,5 hours and with both breakfast and lunch included. Secondly, we realized fast that no helmets were included – and that Bella was going to have her own horse which she would be RIDING without a helmet…

So we were nervous – and it was pretty scary and I went through every worst case scenarios possible. I got especially nervous when they put us on our hourses and they just started walking – and I was absolutely not in control. Within short however, one of the guides came up and hung aorund our little family the rest of the trip (there were four groups going this Wednesday).

The trip went up and down hills on tiny and rocky paths, and over rivers and ponds, and Bella and Theodore were doing just fine the whole time. A couple of times their horses started galloping but the guide was there right away slowing the horses down. William turned back to me once and proclaimed how exciting and fun this was and that I had done a good job arranging the trip. That made me happy to hear J

no control whatsoever

The breakfast area was at a tiny farm and zoo in the middle of the rain forest. They had scarlet maccaws there, and monkeys and other animals – and they were relatively tame (given that the owners were feeding them). We got an ok breakfast, and hung out for about an hour there before moving on to the waterfalls.

These were amazingly beautiful – as all waterfalls are really – nothing really new or special about them – except they were in Costa Rica. We first took pictures at the top one, and then went down to the swimming area of the second waterfall (they are cascading waterfalls, which was pretty cool I guess). The kids were only allowed to swim close to rocks in the natural 6 meter deep pool under the waterfall, but both Arild and I took a little swim closer to the fall, and it was pretty amazing. The water was really cool and nice!

Afterwards, we rode our horses back to the little zoo and had lunch there, before heading down to the cars again. All in all a pretty awesome day J