Hiking Volcan Baru

On purpose I didn't tell anybody before what I was about doing because I didn't want you to worry. It was crazy, true but so amazing and such a big adventure.

On Tuesday the 2nd of Juli 2007 at 11.20 p.m. I hiked the Vulcan Baru in Panama.

All on my own I started a way of 13.5 kilometeres passing 2415 meters of hight. I had a flash light that quickly ran out of battery but I didn't really need since the moon was nearly full and gave enough natural light.

The fact of walking all alone in the middle of the night through forest, on moddy and stony ways with lots of strange noises up to a Volcan was exciting as such!

5 hours later I reached the top, exhausted but really happy!

And the view up there was just stunning, impressive and wonderful!!!

I could overlook the Pacific on one side and turning 180 degress I got to see the Atlantic as well. During the whole sunrise there were flashlights all over lightening up the sky!

Find some more pics HERE

Although I was dead on my feet once I reached the foot of the volcan because I did a 7km track in the afternoon as kind of a warm-up (bad idea) so had about 35km of walking and more or less 5000m of hight that I passed behind me and even had to go on walking because the ranger didn't have a phone to call a taxi to pick me up I had to keep walking till a car stopped and brought me to town it was soooo much worth it!