Today was our last day here, but it was the best
day of the trip and my life. After breakfast, we took a bus to a ranch in Vina.
When we got there, we had to wait for the workers to bring the horses over
because they let them roam the sand dunes overnight. While we waited, we fed
and took pictures of the 5 day old cow that was on the ranch. He was so cute,
but he started following us around because we fed him.
They also had a bunch of
dogs, pigs, and chickens. The ranch was family owned and they were all very
friendly. When all the horses were there, we were placed on certain ones. The
man called me out to ride one of the taller horses and I was so scared!
It was
huge, but he ended up being very disciplined. We started our 3 hour ride by
ocean. It was so beautiful, but I was still getting adjusted to riding so we
weren’t galloping yet. The dogs from the ranch followed us and ran the whole 3
hours next to the horses, it was so cute. It was surprising and calming to see
how disciplined the horses were. They listened to me when I pulled on the
reigns to slow down or kicked to speed up and to the leaders when they rang
bells or yelled. We rode through the water, past marshes, through the woods,
and finally came to the coolest part. We rode through the sand dunes and it was
absolutely amazing. There were huge mountains of sand and the horses were all
galloping together. It was stunning, the sand dunes looked like a desert and you could see the ocean far away in the
background.
This was the most fun I’ve had all trip. When we got to the middle
of the sand dunes, we tied our horses up and our leader cut up pineapples for a
snack.
We let the horses rest for a while, then we were back to riding. When I
got back on, I was much more confident and only wanted to gallop. It was fun
because the horses act as a group and once one horse started galloping, they
all joined in. We were all laughing together and holding on while the horses
sprinted along the beach. I’m so glad that we had this
opportunity.
When we got back to the ranch, I didn’t want to get off my horse
but we were all starving. The family had a huge barbeque for us. We all sat
around the fire and ate the most delicious steak, chicken, pork, sausage,
potato salad, and more. After the barbeque and some pisco sours, we took the
bus back to the hotel. We met all the Chilean students and the professor at
Diego’s Pizza by the shore and we had a nice last dinner with them. They gave
all of us the nicest sweatshirt that has their university name and our
university on it. It was so nice and I was so sad to say goodbye. After dinner,
we went out for our last night. We started at a bar by the shore then we went
to the club in the casino. It was by far the best night that we have had here,
which made it so much harder to say goodbye. We stayed at the club until it
closed and they had to make us to leave! That night I said goodbye to
Sebastian, one of the greatest friends that I’ve made in Chile. It's going to be so hard to leave tomorrow :(
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