Hello everyone! I have just returned from spending the weekend on an excursion to central Norway! The first day we went hiking. We stopped in a beautiful little town to eat our packed lunches. The video below is of the place where we ate lunch.
After lunch, we traveled up to Jotunheimen for a three hour hike. The hike was a bit more challenging than I expected as it was pretty steep and very rocky. However, the views were worth the climb! I felt like a picture didn't capture the 360 degree panorama at the top of the mountain, so I took a video.
The view as I climbed to the top
Me at the top!
Once done with the hike, we drove up to the rafting camp. We had a DELICIOUS dinner at the rafting camp, and then I spent the night alternating between jumping in the ice-cold river and sweating in the sauna and hot tub before collapsing into my bunk bed. The following morning we set out on our rafting trip. We were all a bit nervous because there was a serious accident on the river the day before involving some people who went rafting on their own. Once we got out on the river it was a lot of fun! The guide on my boat was from Costa Rica and he was a fun guy, but sometimes we had trouble understanding him. Once, we thought he asked us if we wanted to keep going down the river, so we thought that was a dumb question and said of course! Then he had us paddle against the current towards a rock and all of a sudden our raft was flipping over! I remember being perpendicular to the water and thinking that the people on the other side of the boat were going to fall out, and then all of a sudden I was falling out of the boat! After some panicked struggle under the water I came to the surface. I must have been doing something stupid because everyone started yelling at me to "SWIM!". Then those 7 years of swim team kicked in and I swam to another boat where they pulled me out of the water. It was exhilarating and I was shaking for a good ten minutes afterward. Turns out the guide had asked us if we wanted to go "surf" in the river and had told us there was a very good chance off us flipping over. Whoops!
Getting the safety talk before setting out.
One of the rafts mid-rapid.
After a long and rainy bus ride home to Blindern, I was ready to collapse. This morning I am feeling this weekend in every one of my muscles. This week will be full of studying, researching and writing as everything is due next week, the last week of the program.
Wow the view is really fantastic! nice pictures. how does it feel to pass over those great rapids? ^_^
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