Jalpatagua

But I couldn't sleep at all, my fever and sickness flared up again and my heart was racing. My body had entered some kind of emergency state 🙈🤒 Julia also couldn't sleep because she was freezing despite jacket and sleeping bag. So we passed the night suffering in silence until we were woken up at 4 am by the guides to the sunrise hike up the hill...

We thought about it but in our state we continued to lay in the tent until 06:30 when they came back and the breakfast was served: Some surprisingly good pancakes, coffee, an egg and a cereal bar. It helped me a bit to get some energy and motivation back and an hour later we started the descent which went really smooth easy. As we arrived down at the office we dropped off the rented stuff and got a nice celebratory bottle of beer 🍻 We cheered with the people that we had spend so much time the last 24 hours and suffered together. With some we exchanged info and maybe we'll get the chance to see them again.

In the early afternoon we arrived back in Antigua and saddled Ruedi to continue in direction of El Salvador. But we had planned a stop in between at another volcano where it's possible to get a volcano baked pizza and roast your marshmallows directly on the lava... Unfortunately we were already a bit late and super tired, so we continued on to Jalpatagua, a little town near the border to El Salvador, to check for a hotel. We urgently needed a shower and to rest. But we still treated ourselves to a pizza 🍕 before going to bed ☺️Read more