My advice to anyone going to the Waterfalls – pay for transport to the top. It is more than worth it!!!
I’m told its an hours walk but there is no way on this earth that it was only an hour, it felt like a year. The views are beautiful and there is finally some clean, fresh air but oh my god the heat was intense!
I’m not a big fan of sweat as I’m sure most people aren’t but we all had to just embrace it and continue.
We were shown a shortcut through a bunch of trees by an old Colombian man however it felt more like a shortcut to death! Unsteady rocks, branches that could knock you out and large drops that you just had to jump – I was scared for my life on several occasions but it definitely made the journey funnier.
We got to a little shack selling water and beer (no fruit juice though!!) and I was told we were half way – I thought I might die having to do it again just to get there!! Luckily it was a joke and we were only a couple of minutes away, we paid the fee and continued through a field full of cows, bills, dogs, cats and more chickens than you could count.
Ahhh what’s that? The sound of water!!! I can’t see it but I can hear it – temptation at its finest!
It was a beautiful waterfall and the reward of cool water surrounding your hot, sticky body was definitely worth it!!!
You can climb further and further up (7 pools apparently) but I only made it to the 3rd before my hunger got the better of me.
The walk back was far worse than I could have imagined. Now I’m no Geologist but surely if you walk up hill to get somewhere you must walk down hill to get back?? But no somehow the walk home was still all up hill!!!!! Running low in energy, water and most of all motivation I struggled to make it all the way.
A good 10 hour sleep sorted me out though and I made it back into the office the next day.
It’s good to know they have a stretcher if needed.
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