What Saved My Life

While on an organized trip to La Paz Waterfalls in Costa Rica - a place ~6,000ft above sea level in the tropical jungle, I found myself in the epicenter of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which killed more than 40 people around me. The place was famous with its cascade of 3 ~60ft tall waterfalls, as well as with its butterfly, reptile and mammal houses.

Instead of going to the waterfalls - 500 feet away as I planned initially, I went first to the butterfly garden. At the moment the earthquake struck, I was taking the portrait of this butterfly. Should I have stuck with my initial plans, I would have been buried alive at the waterfalls, which were leveled by natural disaster. 24 hours after the earthquake, I was airlifted from the tropical jungle after having spend a night in pouring rain and numerous aftershocks.