Today was a pretty awesome day. Probably one of the cooler outdoor days I’ve had. Tal and I took a ride out to a lake a few hours west of
We got to the park and rode in. The game park was set up so that you could see wild life while riding your bike all through the park. We started on the first trail we saw that said 14k, we figured that was a good distance. The trail was awesome, up and down hills, through the mountains. We saw zebra, antelopes, wildebeests, and some other things. Plus, there was no one else around at all, we didn’t run into a single other person, it was pretty cool. Unfortunately the terrain was made of a mix of sand and rocks, which made it pretty hard to bike around, but it was still pretty fun.
After finishing that 14k trail, we realized we had taken the wrong one. It was actually another 7k to the real attraction of the park. So we biked another 7k deeper into the terrain. Once we made it to the center, we were told that in order to see the waterfalls and all the other cool stuff you have to hike an hour down into the rocks. So we did. What we didn’t realize though, was that it was an hour hike, each way. By this time we had no food, had already bide over 20k through sand and were running low on water. Still, hiking through the rocks and waterfalls was pretty amazing. The water was steaming hot, because we were in complete desert, so it was pretty cool.
Once we started hiking we saw a lot more people (apparently people usually just drive to the hike). The rocks were pretty tricky to climb through, and at one point we ran into a family who had a daughter with them trying to climb through these rocks in high heels! Who does that? I cant even wear high heels out at night, let alone rock climb with them! Poor girls, I wish they didn’t feel the need to always dress up so much, they should just let themselves have fun. Anyway, minutes after we ran into them, her heel broke and they turned back.
It was starting to get late so we headed back up after an hour of climbing downwards. We made it to the top again an hour later and it was time to bike 7k back to the park entrance and then another 5k back through the town. I was starving, and thirsty and it was soo hot, but we were almost there, kind of. We started riding and someone yells out at me that I have a flat. We tried to get it fixed but nothing would work. So Tal took the bike and we rode 13k back to our starting point. I was very very grateful Tal took the bike at that point; riding in the sand is not fun, riding a flat in the sand is almost impossible.
It was a super tiring day, about 8 hours of non stop biking and hiking. But it was amazing. We were riding right up to zebra and all these animals; we had to stop in our tracks sometime to let them pass. It was kind of scary actually. The scenery was amazing also. A volcanic mountain in the backdrop, these amazing rocks and gorgeous clouds with blue skies, it was awesome. And so free feeling just riding around in nature like that, it was hard but truly a great day.
