Category: South America and Costa Rica

  • We started with an 8:30am departure to Quepos. This was about a 5 hour drive but we made many stops along the way to look at the wildlife. Our first stop was about an hour in to a crocodile park. We then drove another hour or so to a buffet style lunch. After this we…

  • We started early with a van ride to then get on a boat for 45 minutes. After this, we stopped off to get breakfast (which was empanadas) and take a break from the travelling. They had a butterfly enclosure too which we all checked out before leaving again. We had about 45 minutes to our…

  • We started with an hour and a half drive to a spot to have breakfast and coffee if we wanted it and to take a break from driving.  We then continued on, stopping to take photos at La Paz waterfall. We then went to Mi Cafecito, which is a coffee plantation that G adventures supports.…

  • I left the hotel in Cartagena with one of the guys from my group (his flight was 15 minutes after mine) and while at the airport we spotted someone else from our group. She had initially thought her flight was 2pm but realised early that morning that her flight was actually at 10:30am. As it…

  • We had to get on a bus at 7am to be able to catch our flight from Medellin to Cartagena. The hotel provided us with breakfast before we left to eat on the bus.  When the flight actually started, notebook got passed around so everyone could sign it (the ceo happened to get automatically placed…

  • We had to leave villa de Leyva at about 7am and drive 4 hours back to Bogota, where we then boarded a flight. While we were waiting at the gate, we were planning on listening to our ceo talk about the history of the currency and who was on each of the notes, but instead…

  • Most of us made it to breakfast before needing to be ready so we decided to eat together. Once most of us were down there, one of the guys who had gotten the uber the night before had come down and told the ceo that his roommate, one of the other guys who had went,…

  • I had an overnight flight connection, having the first one leaving at 7:45pm and the second one arriving at 4am. I got lucky and was told my bag was checked through the whole way (which I wasn’t expecting as it was a domestic flight followed by an international flight) but upon picking my bag up…

  • We had to meet at 8:30am to head down to the port. We had a 45 minute journey back to the mainland where we then got on a semi private transfer (there was 3 people we didn’t know who were going somewhere else) close to our hostel in Rio. For whatever reason the van itself…

  • We arrived on the island around noon after a 45 minute ferry ride across the ocean. We then had a 10 minute walk from the port to our hotel, where we were able to check in straight away. We had about 10 minutes before meeting the group back outside where we did a short orientation…