Yesterday we got to visit Los
Espejillos. It's an awesome park with tons of waterfalls and natural pools to play in. Mike and Aileen and Chad and Emily went with us for the day. The ride up there is not for the weak of heart. It's like being in a barrel of Monkeys (the game) and getting shaken for like an hour. The roads are incredibly bumpy and we crossed nearly 20 rivers--some were dried up because Bolivia really needs rain but others weren't. There was this river that was very wide and it was deep and a man had put sticks in the ground of the river to help direct you where you could drive safely and then he wanted to be paid.
This was the entrance clearing once you got there. It costs 50 cents a person to get in. Yesterday it was full of people because it's a holiday weekend this weekend here but other days they said it's empty.
This is Mike, Chad, Aileen and Grant climbing to make a jump off a cliff into the water. The water was impossibly deep in many different areas. One tiny pool you could jump in Mike, who is 6 foot 7 can not touch the bottom.
Here is one of the falls. It was really pretty there. We visited a similar site in Hawaii called the seven sacred pools but I think Los
Espejillos has places to jump and swim.
This is Grant jumping off the cliff. He jumped twice and had a lot of fun. Emily and I stayed grounded in order to take pictures :)
This is the group of them after they just got finished jumping. All the Bolivians hooted and hollered for Aileen because no other women had jumped since we had been there.
Crossing this bridge was necessary to get up the river and to the tallest falls. It was straight out of the Indiana Jones movies. There was a board running down the middle and only bamboo sticks crossing that board and on the sides there were holes where people's feet had punched though. So you had to walk foot in front of foot just on the board in the middle if you wanted to not go through.
We took our lunches and ate a picnic there. It's only
accessible certain times of the year before there is too much rain. Then the river gets too big and the path too muddy. Chad and Emily got stuck once and they didn't have cell phone service and no one could get them out of the mud. Finally someone with a wench came along and pulled them out.
This was the entrance clearing once you got there. It costs 50 cents a person to get in. Yesterday it was full of people because it's a holiday weekend this weekend here but other days they said it's empty.
This is Mike, Chad, Aileen and Grant climbing to make a jump off a cliff into the water. The water was impossibly deep in many different areas. One tiny pool you could jump in Mike, who is 6 foot 7 can not touch the bottom.
Here is one of the falls. It was really pretty there. We visited a similar site in Hawaii called the seven sacred pools but I think Los Espejillos has places to jump and swim.
This is Grant jumping off the cliff. He jumped twice and had a lot of fun. Emily and I stayed grounded in order to take pictures :)
This is the group of them after they just got finished jumping. All the Bolivians hooted and hollered for Aileen because no other women had jumped since we had been there.
Crossing this bridge was necessary to get up the river and to the tallest falls. It was straight out of the Indiana Jones movies. There was a board running down the middle and only bamboo sticks crossing that board and on the sides there were holes where people's feet had punched though. So you had to walk foot in front of foot just on the board in the middle if you wanted to not go through.
We took our lunches and ate a picnic there. It's only accessible certain times of the year before there is too much rain. Then the river gets too big and the path too muddy. Chad and Emily got stuck once and they didn't have cell phone service and no one could get them out of the mud. Finally someone with a wench came along and pulled them out.
