While on route to deliver school supplies – http://tinyurl.com/5k6wkx – a few days ago, we decided to take “the path less traveled” and visit a waterfall less advertized and NEVER visited by our season guide. We traveled on a dirt/gravel road through several villages up the mountains above Huatulco for about an hour and one half before we saw the above sign very close to our goal.
We soon arrived at a rope across the road where a small girl, to whom we had previously given school school supplies, charged us each 50 pesos (excluding our guide and his son) to pass and go down a fairly steep, well graded mountain switchback road until we reached a parking area with a shelter house and restrooms. The same girl wanted to sell us coffee as we were leaving. I think someone should hire her to run their business!
We left the car secured and traveled briefly down through a path in a cornfield to reach the area of a mountain stream. See next photo of my spouse and the son’s guide, Miguel, working their way through the cornfield.
At first, when we got into the mountain ravine and began to follow it up stream, it didn’t seem like we were going to see very much. Oh, we saw a small stream and some water coming from springs along the mountain side, but that was about it. But then we saw a mountain pool that we could look right down to the bottom of because it was so clear.
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