Our trip to Monteverde

On our way to Monteverde was anything but a normal trip. we left first by heading out on our bus with Chito our bus driver. He left us at Arenal lake where we then took a boat ride across the lake to meet our horses. On our boat though were our friends Darwin and company who came with another ACIS group from Michigan. As we arrived at the horses, many of us experienced our first challenge of the horse by trying to get on it! When we finally started moving, we journeyed 6 miles on our horses 

down a windy and mountaintops terrain.  As with people, we learned that many of the horses have an interesting personality and don´t always get along with everyone! What was  really neat is that some of the horses wanted to run a little bit so with permission and depending on the experience of the rider, some of those hoses were allowed to trot and gallop a little bit. After the Oh My God horses, we traveled on the Oh My God roads traveling the rest of the way to Monteverde by not exceeding 20 miles an hour for the 30 mile journey. When we arrived, we had a chance to eat lunch in the town of Monteverde before heading to our beautiful hotel and enjoying the activities such as tennis and swimming prior to dinner. We can´t wait until we see what´s in store for tomorrow!