This morning we decided to hike "The Suspension Bridge" trail. This is a trail that the migrating Indians use seasonally to travel back and forth from the Caribbean side to Boquete for coffee harvest...a 3 to 4 day hike!
It is deeply beautiful with the trail sides carpeted with Novias...spanish for girlfriend because there are 2 flowers per stem. The trail goes through primal cloud jungle. Very primordial.
As we crossed the bridge, there was a new trail to the right with a sign saying, "Waterfalls." So we took it.
It was an improved trail with rocks cemented together for easy walking. And it was steeply up hill, so this helped.
We passed through a primitive gate and after about 20 minutes came upon a wood cabin under construction.
Uh oh!
I said to my fellow hikers, "Looks like they will hit us up for money." And they did. $5 each.
We said, "No way!"
We found out this land was owned by a friend of ours, actually the lady we owned our dog before we stole it from town. (The dog always ran away from her house, was a mess and typically roaming around town, so we took it not knowing it was someone else's dog)
We continued up the trail, now a muddy, wet mess, slippery beyond belief and eventually got to the first of 12 waterfalls.
Whoa! This was a big one. About 100 feet high and a huge flow over the top. I haven't scene one this big in Panama yet.
It was spectacular.
Where was my camera when I needed it!
We continued up another steep, slippery pitch for 30 minutes and came to the second waterfall. As incredible as the first one.
At this point, we were soaked and muddy and ready to turn around.
One day, a drier day I hope, we will return with food and drink to see how many of these waterfalls we can get to.
When we returned, we paid the guy $5 each because it was so worth it!
Then on to lunch.
A great day for hiking, fellowship and beauty.
When I got home, it took me an hour to clean everything up...so much mud.
But it was worth every minute of it.
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