San Jose to Arenal on the Balsa River

Tags whitewater rafting & tubing

I awoke with an entire butterfly garden fluttering in my stomach. Just two months ago, I had been on a whitewater tubing adventure, but I had not yet been whitewater rafting. I knew that it was perfectly safe, the river routes rehearsed and run day after day, but I couldn't banish from my mind the idea of falling out of the raft and floating down the river with no one to save me.

Last updated: Oct 22, 2023


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