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articles about my crazy adventures

I MUST BE AN ANGEL BECAUSE I SUMMITED ANGEL'S LANDING

Angel's Landing is one of the most popular hikes in the United States and is located in Zion National Park. You might have already seen photos and videos of people holding on the chains to hike the narrow trail to its summit. When my friend and I visited Zion on our road trip through the American Southwest, we were a little intimidated by this trail that. is rated very difficult. We are both healthy and pretty active, but we are not the type of people who train everyday at the gym or who run marathons. This trip was also pretty last minute, so we didn't have time to train for it. Let's just say we decided we were going to try it, but made the deal that at any point if one of us decided we were done, we were going to turn around and go back down and there would be no shame in it.

MY EXPERIENCE RAFTING IN THE GRAND CANYON

In September 2019, my friend and I went on a road trip through Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California. (For more information about this road trip, click here) While on this road trip, we of course visited the Grand Canyon National Park. How could you go to Arizona and not go to the Grand Canyon?! But, not only did we want to see it from the top like you can see in all the pictures, we kind of wanted to see it from the river too. And the best way to do that was to go rafting! Since we didn't have much time, the 14 days rafting trip through the whole Colorado River wasn't exactly a possibility, but with Hualapai River Runners, we could go rafting for a day at the West end of the Grand Canyon.

MY EXPERIENCE HIKING DJEBEL TOUBKAL IN MOROCCO

When we started planning our trip to Morocco, my friend said to me: We need more nature and more hiking on this trip. Well, the highest mountain in North Africa is luckily located in Morocco. Since there were expeditions of a few days combined with stays in the Sahara, we jumped at the occasion. Let me tell you we had no idea what we were getting into, but I'm glad we did it. As John Green wrote in Paper Towns: "If we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story". Well, here is the story!

WHAT IT WAS LIKE ZIPLINING IN THE CLOUD FOREST OF COSTA RICA

Costa Rica is a thrill-seeker's paradise. I'm not exactly a thrill-seeker, but I like to try new things and I absolutely love ziplining, so I jumped at the chance to try it in the beautiful cloud forest. The cloud forest is located high up in the mountains of Costa Rica, and the view over the rain forest and the mountains is absolutely stunning. We booked the activity through Red Lava Tours while we were in La Fortuna which allowed us to have a pretty good deal since we booked more than one tour with them, but the activity itself was with 100% Aventura and cost 50 US$ per person. 100% Aventura is located in Monte Verde and offers many activities like horseback riding and ATV tours, but their main activity is the Canopy Tour, which has the longest Superman zipline in Latin America. A full mile of flying over the rain forest face first!