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Betrayal is super fun, we didn't play that one tonight though. Started with Concept, then played a game called Hues and Cues. It was a good time, definitely the best part of the day!

It was fantastic and a bit terrifying.

I am soo happy I went, but unless there is a lovely woman asking me to accompany her, I won't do it again.

95% of the path is amazing, with some thrilling but not scary views, the last 5% was terrifying, however I never felt unsafe.

Ok, lets start from the beginning.

As you probably know, El Caminito Del Rey is a stunningly beautiful path in a crevase of a mountain side, it leads between two hydro electric powerplants, and was originally built as a maintenance path.

It got famous on the internet as the worlds most dangerous path, when I first saw videos of it, the path was crumbling concrete hanging on the mountain side.

This is no longer the case, since adventurers kept bypassing anything the local government did to prevetn access, they decided on another way forward, rebuilding the path.

The new path is built just above the old one, preventing access to the old path, while granting safe and easy access for unfit tourists (like me) to see the amazing landscape.

The path is modern, made out of tick peices of wood, securely anchored to the mountain side, there is a secure railing with netting along the entiire path.

There is minimal need for planning on walking the path, you need to get a ticket, and I do recommend getting a ticket for the return bus as well, you will be tired after walking the path.

You only really need four things to walk the path.

1. A ticket
2. A bottle of water
3. Decent shoes, I walked in my Brooks Ghost 23, you don't need hiking boots, but avoid sandals or flipflops.
4. A good camera with a solid strap, if you drop your phone or camera over the edge of the railing, it is gone/destroyed.

Do not bring a big backpack, this is noted on the rules you get when buying a ticket, this is due to the path being very narrow.

You buy tickets for the walk online: https://www.caminitodelrey.info/en/tickets/buy

We got a guided tour, we had an english guide, but the guy we had was not really worth it.

So you go to the restaurant marked on the map you get when buying the tickets, that is not the entrence to the path, it is the entrence to the entrence to the path, unless your instructions say otherwise, do not wait there, there are big signs, you need to walk about 2km to get to the entrence of El Caminito Del Rey.

So you get to the entrence, this was a bit chaotic when I was there, depspite being there in low season. Speak with the staff, they will help you, scan your ticket and get into your group.

If you have picked a guided tour, you will be issued a small radio reciever and and headphones, the headphones are terrible, if you can, get some better 3.5mm earbuds that fit better.

Regarless of what ticket you have bought, you will be issued a helmet and a disposable hairnet.

Finally, you are entering El Caminito Del Rey!

The path is for the most part located inside the cleft, this is very nice as if you start feeling dizzy of vertigo, you can just not look down, and the feeling goes away.

This is untill the end...

I must again stress, that while it was terrifying, I never felt unsafe.

You will have to walk across a metal grid catwalk suspention bridge, it is supported by thick metal cables, but it does wobble and sway a bit, then you get to a an anchored path hainging on the open side of the mountain, there is nothing to help your vertigo there as the path hangs over a sheer drop of 100+ meters.

I don't like hights, I get some vertigo, I was clearly uncomfortable and scared, but at that point you can't really go back, so I just focused on continuing on.

The path is completely safe, highly thrilling and even terrifying, and so so worth it.

I had my Lumix S5 camera with my 24-105mm lens, a great combo, and I just 1150+ photots from my walk, some of the most beutiful nature photos I have taken.

Haha I don't have the GPU for that. Also it's called "mining" crypto, not "youring" crypto.

I’d say lay off the gaba dealies withdrawals for em can be insomnia

I'm an insomniac anyway, Id' rather knock myself out than stay awake for like a day or two straight and be miserable due to lack of sleep. I actually take Gabapentin as well, which helped me not feel like ass in the morning (the usual outcome of taking like 15 mg of Ambien, previous to about 2-3 years ago)

I feel you on the job thing, when I was 23 it took me many months to find a job in IT, it was awful, I remember the stress of it, I needed it desperately to stay in the country, otherwise I’d be deported to hell.

Luckily I'm a citizen so I don't have to worry about that, but yeah, it's absolutely miserable and demeaning. Half of the time is spent creating an account for something that you'll never use again, verifying that your resume was parsed correctly, and then answering the same bullshit discrimination questions. 30% of it is spent wading through all the job postings from recruiters with horrible/useless job descriptions, and if you find one you like, talking to them for 20 minutes about the exact same stuff that's on your resume and you go into detail about it and they stop you because they have no clue what you're talking about. My mom keeps telling me "you may have to go for something that you don't want" because she doesn't understand that getting a helpdesk job takes just as much effort as getting a Linux System Engineer job.