Apr
26

Volcano Boarding in Leon, Nicaragua!

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  1. QueenBrain12 says:

    I’ve never experienced volcano boarding but I’ve gone snow boarding and it is amazing. I can’t wait to go on an adventure with you. I’m glad you got to experience this volcano boarding! EEEEEE

    xoxo
    QueenB

    • im sure snow boarding was a bit safer just cus well its snow… this is actual rocks/gravel…lol!!! I can’t wait for you to join me on an adventure. EEeee that would be so damn awesome!!!

  2. Soo cool. I went sand boarding in Ica and it was loads of fun! Still need to do volcano boarding though! Looks like a great time. What kind of camera do you have? I had a canon point and shoot and one drunken night in the Virgin Islands it took a shit on us we sent it back, and they fixed it for us! Maybe thats an option.
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    • Oh I so wanna go sand boarding. That’s on my 2 do list!!! I have a panasonic camera. Don’t know much else about it because I threw away the box after I bought it (didn’t feel like carrying it around with me). I’ll have to find out online.

  3. Didn’t we say to you that you’d be squealing all the way down? 😉 Can’t believe that you ruined another camera!! Hope it will keep working until you get to the U.S. Your injuries sound as if you went with Bigfoot? We are still happy that we didn’t get to go on very fast boards when we did it, I guess my SLR camera wouldn’t have survived it 😀
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    • jajaja yes y’all said I would be squeeling all the way down and well I sure was. I know I cant believe I ruined yet another damn camera… ugh I have bad luck with them. I am praying it continues to semi work until I get home. Oh and I forgot who I went with but it wasnt bigfoot. We paid $26 for ours.

  4. LOL, awesome. You are going to go through 15 cameras before you get home!

    Never done that before, but that does look like fun. Glad you had a good time Jaime!
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    • OMG dont say that justin… I really hope I dont go through 15 cameras that would be a lot of nights of travel. I think you would love doing this… its fucking EPIC!!!

  5. Wow, this sounds like so much fun. I’ve never heard of it either, but now I can’t wait to do it.
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  6. I wanna play!!

  7. Hmmm…I am having a hard enough time trying to talk myself into going ziplining in Costa Rica…I’m not sure my poor nerves can handle volcano boarding too…why why why is it so oddly tempting?!

    • Oh MEgan you should def go ziplining… I was scared as well but am so glad I did it. If you do do it do it in Monteverde with 100% Aventura… best deal for your buck!!! About VB you can so do it… you must!!! Its just so damn awesome!!!

      • haha your enthusiasm is definitely infectious. I love the idea of ziplining in CR, but HATE the idea of falling 200m to my death.

        Also hate the idea of death by volcano gravel.

        Hmmmmmmmmm!!

  8. This looks really cool, even for a bit of scaredy cat like me! I would definitely do it…and maybe just not take my camera with me, because with my luck that thing would definitely not work again 🙂
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    • Yeah if you do it take your camera but have the guid bring it down for you at the end…lol. That is what I should have done but was to scared to ask. Let me know when & if you do it Julia.

  9. Oh wow, that looks like WAY too much fun!!! Adding it to my BL 🙂

  10. OK – that sounds awesome, but your ending does not. This post makes the case for having a cheap camera. Buy a bunch or disposables 🙂
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    • Yeah the ending was sad…lol!!! Hello I can not be the one traveling around with disposables… dont play guys. I have to keep it classy…jajaja!!!

  11. YOU ARE FUCKING NUTS!!!!!!

    Nunca, NUNCA! NEVER!!! Ni aunque me pagaran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Seriously… I have this THING with volcanos, SNAKES, earthquakes & some CLOWNS… like a phobia or something… I can’t be close enough of any kind of snakes… volcanos & earthquakes actually I don’t have the “pleasure” of meeting them and I’ll be fine if I never be around one of those. Clowns… another stroy which Stephen King is the one to blame. But that’s just me! 😛

    btw, I love the idea of toe touch photos 🙂 it goes with you… and u actually can do it! thanks ballet/jazz/tap classes. Yo ni queriendo podría hacerlo… se me hace que no me toco ni uno jajajaja…

    Y que risa con el Traca traca… yo tenía uno cuando era niño!!! Claro que ni lo pelaba jajajajajaajaja pero me acuerdo de el, las BOLAS eran azules lol… ya lo sabes usar bien? Yo te puedo enseñar a usar LAS BOLAS si quieres 😉 lmfao

    Oye… falta un mes y 2 semanas para la boda!!! Y yo aún no sé si voy a ir 🙁 so PLEASE consider to make a stop in Monterrey or Terán… so we can meet, b4 u go away. ALso there’s a small chance I go to H-town around july 30th, but It would be too late, right?
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    • No I am not nuts… it was fucking awesome. You will have to do it one day… You have to face your fears and kiss them goodbye!!! Pero la verdad I am still a bit scared of clowns…they are just scary. So I wont judge you for that one.

      Donde tenias Traca Traca… yo nunca en mi vida las a visto. Perro ahorra so un poco mejore…perro no tanto. No eh practicado resiente mente.

      OMG I know no me recuerdas de la boda… porque se significa que esta etapa de mi aventura en Latino America se va cavar. Y pues no no queiro que se acabe. Perro ojala que puedas ir… stuviera con madre!!! Y si pa July 30th yo ya no voy astar en Houston… so perdon 🙁

  12. Tomacina Wuthrich says:

    Volcano boarding, HUH, You are amazing my Man!!!! Keep it up!!!

  13. Oh lord. Does everyone who does this get hurt? I’m starting to think that I should go with the slower boards as Dani and Jess suggested!
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    • jajaja I dont know about everyone but I know a lot of people do & well I was one of them. I didn’t know I was getting a fast board… they all look alike.

  14. They should really call it volcano sledding, maybe that’s why I was go good at it, Canadians like to go sledding.

    I’m sure it really hurt but it made me laugh to read about it.
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  15. Hmm, I’ve heard too many stories about people getting all scratched up and hurt doing this – I don’t think I’ll do it, but I bet Jack would be the first one inline given the chance 🙂
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  16. cool!!! hope its an inactive volcano… lol

  17. Haha…that sounds like heaps of fun. Never tried it I must admit!
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  18. I have never heard of this! I’m pretty sure I would do it if I ever end up somewhere where there’s a volcano that you can slide down. I thought you’d be standing up on the board, which sounded almost impossible to me, but now I see you got to sit down. It sounds like an awesome experience.

    • Oh you should def do this it is AWESOME!!! You can actually do it sitting or standing up. I did it sitting down cus it looks safer but even that is dangerous!!!

  19. Omg this looks like fun. Can you stand and not sit so it is more like snowboarding? I’d dig that. Also, are there any volcanos in Guatemala that provide the ability for volcano boarding?

    • Oh it is a lot of fun & yup you can do it sitting down & standing up… I choose sitting down cus well I would never do it standing up!!! I dont think any in Guatemala offer volcano boarding… That I know of only Nicaragua in all of Central America.

  20. OUCH! Sounds like it hurt. That being said, I think I’d still have to try it. How many people get to go volcano boarding? 🙂

    • Jaime Davila says:

      Oh man it really did… when I opened my eyes I couldn’t even breath and had rocks in my mouth. I really thought that I was not gonna make it. Luckily it wasn’t has bad as I thought it was, but yeah will never do it again.

  21. You are crazy! But that looks like a lot of fun!

  22. this almost looks like a really fun super mario game

  23. Look so so so cool! Wanna try it out!
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  24. Omg Jaime!!! So so scaryyyy!!! Glad you conquered your fear and did it (even though it turned out horribly )!!!! I can’t even imagine how bad that hurt!!!!!

    • Jaime Davila says:

      Jajaja yeah Natasha, so glad everything turned out okay in the end. Oh & it hurt so much. The chest pain was the worst.

  25. Ahh I remember doing that in Nica too, good times. I had a similar hairy experience doing sandboarding in Huachina in Peru. A fellow backpacker flew past me at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing my head with his board. Could have been real nasty.

    • Jaime Davila says:

      Oh wow that is scary. I’m glad you are okay. Wow… yeah sand boarding can be dangerous.

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