Trek Sumup
The trek was really fun and it was cool to start in one type of landscape and end up in another. For the most part the trek was amazing and absolutely gorgeous but at times it was very difficult. Towards the end of the trip we had to wear our big backpacks and have the 95 degree sun beating down on our heads. Since we were in the jungle there were also a lot of annoying bugs and mosquitos. Luckily, all the positives strongly outwayed the negatives.
The first day was all at a slight downhill and the weather was great--sunny but not too hot. We ate lunch near a river and once we reached our campsite we got to swim. We set up our tents near these old abandoned huts and other pre-incan ruins.
2nd day: I was the leader and had a pretty hard hike...I think the hardest. The landscape changed a lot to jungle. We had to carry our big backpacks for half the day and it was just sooo hot. We arrived to the campsite and swam--the water was amazing. The campsite was pretty buggy and muggy. We ate dinner pretty late and decided that we were going to wake up really early in the morning to avoid the hot afternoon sun.
3rd day HALLOWEEN! We woke up really early and left the campsite at 6:45. Crister wore a witch hat in honor of Halloween. The morning was great becuase it was so cool. We passed awesome waterfalls and the valley was just gorgeous. We mainly walked higher up on the edge of the valley overlooking the river below; there were also huge waterfalls on the other side of the valley that we could see pour down. At one point in the day Crister and I got lost becuase we stopped to get water and when we were finished the group was way far ahead and didnt wait. There were so many different paths to take that we waited for Maro and Chris to come back and get us. After that we had a miserable lunch under the scorching hot sun. The rest of the afternoon was really pretty but supppper hot. We finally made it to a swimming hole near the town Chusi where we stayed that night. I was so happy to see water! We had dinner in the town and also had a woman´s game of soccer. All of us girls played the local woman on the little cement soccer field. It was soo much fun and reminded me a lot of my Costa Rica trip. We, of course, won 4-2. It was a blast. For Halloween we got costumes and candy and did tent trick-or-treating. Each of us went to each other´s tents and got candy it was hillarious...it only lasted about 10 min because there were 4 tents but it was still really fun. Everyone had pretty good costumes for what we could do with them. I was a mystical creature...it is an inside joke with the group. After the trick or treating we made a bonfire and told scary stories and ate our candy. A few of us stayed up after that and talked and also teepeed the instructors tent haha. It was an awesome Halloween in a verrry different way. I don´t think there will be another Halloween where I am treking in the jungle of Bolivia, play soccer with the local woman, and TENT trick or treat. I had so much fun and it was defiantly a Halloween to remember!
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