The Waterfalls of San Cristobel
Trip Start
Nov 24, 2005
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Trip End
May 21, 2006
Near Xela,
Guatemala
Saturday, December 3, 2005
No one, not even the teachers enacting as our guides, had previously been to the nearby waterfalls so together we ventured into the unknown. We started out up a hill offering a splendid vista of the village set within hillsides checkered with farm fields. Then down again and we had essentially walked a rather large loop. Directions from a friendly farmer obtained and we were off again in the correct direction.
Along a river and through farm fields we strolled. A group of children laugh while watching a small boy attempts to exert some control over a pigs that appears about three times his size with a short piece of rope
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. Farmers load corn and the biggest radishes I´ve seen into a truck. Cows stare as we pass.The riverside and its environs are hardly pristine. As is the case where ever we´ve been in the country side random rubbish litters the land. But the scene is somehow lovely despite the ubiquitous junk.
A turn onto a path and we are walking beneath imposing cliffs in a field on knee high grass. The air transitions from arid to humid and we are beneath the falls, a spectacular cascade of white water spraying over the cliff. Chris and I lay like lizards enjoying the mist and breeze of the falls. Bliss.
Comments
i'm jealous
WOW. sounds like you are having a great time. i wish i were there now, i am really regretting it, but keep the updates coming, they are great.