Day 3

After breakfast we set off early on the coach, to make our way to the Dunajec river for Traditional River Rafting. Here we floated down the river between the Polish and Slovakian boarder, for 2 hours (11km) along the longest canyon in Eastern Europe. 

Once we reached the end, we started walking up the forest lining the river, before getting on the coach to make our way to the monastery, in Červeny Klástor, where we spent the afternoon. The history was fascinating as was having an insight into the lives of the monks that lived there. In the courtyard there were a variety of birds ranging from a hawk to a golden eagle. Once we had finished looking round, we made our way back to the house as we had plans to meet some local scouts. On the way we stopped of at a Tesco; it was great to see a familiar shop! Even though we had had been out for a long day, once back we had a quick turn around and were soon walking to meet the Scouts. 

Although we were nervous about the language barrier, we had a lovely time with the Slovakian Girl Scouts and hope to keep in contact with them.

After playing some Slovakia games and teaching them one of ours, we had some traditional Slovak food which was delicious. 

Suddenly it started to pour down and thunder began to approach so after chatting some more (their English was incredible) we began our walk back to the house in the rain. 

Warming ourselves up with a hot chocolate, we enjoyed some games before heading up for an early night ready for a full day tomorrow!