When a group of Peace Corps volunteers get together there is always an adventure to be had. It was a cloudy cool day in Zaruma and with the rains from the night before our original plan for a long hike was knocked out. But there is always a plan b as pc always says, so we first trekked our way through clay mud up to the cross statue overlooking all of Zaruma. Later we headed down for what we all were really excited about, paintball!! Yup, PAINTBALL. Who would have thought that they have paintball here in Ecuador, and especially in the small conservative town of Zaruma?
Now, I’ve never actually played paintball in the US, although I had always wanted to, but even so I imagine it doesn’t compare to the bad ass paintball that Zaruma has to offer. We’re talking no rules, free range, and in nature, not in a small cement constructed court.
Imagine….an acre of hilly overrun muddy banana fields, climbing trees, planning ambushes from up above, sliding down the muddy hills, and running around in old military equipment playing war. I’m not sure paintball gets better that this!! We ended up playing PCVs against our local friends, and it was awesome. In the end we lost but I guess we should have figured that would happen since one of the locals is actually in the Ecuadorian military. He actually knew how to aim, while the rest of us just shot until we accidently hit something. I did hit one person though, so that was exciting. I didn’t think that with my no-aim strategy that one of my paintball bullets would actually get someone!
Playing in banana fields definitely set the bar high for playing paintball one day back in the US! (Jay and Ryan get those old paintball guns ready, I’m challenging you’ll once I get home!)
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