A beautiful 70-meter-long waterfall is our destination today. According to the locals, it is well worth the effort. This magnificent natural phenomenon has been converted for tourists to enjoy a fun time.
If you want to see the waterfall in its entirety, you have to descend over 500 steps to the foot of the waterfall. And a surprise awaits us there. Because it is not just one waterfall, there are two. The right waterfall cascades beautifully down over various rock formations, and those formations look like square, elongated shapes. Very special. Unfortunately, we discover at home that it doesn’t look as good in photos as we see it.
On the left is the large 70-meter waterfall. Today it is full of water and comes cascading down with the force of nature. Unbelievable! What power. It comes back up about 5 meters when it falls into the small lake. Enormous. You cannot swim at the waterfall today, which is very understandable. A little further along the waterfall, however, there is a section where you are allowed to go in, and it is busy there with tourists who want to take a quick dip.
We enjoy the energy, and with legs and sore feet still stiff from yesterday’s hike, we walk back up the stairs. After which we enjoy a delicious lunch. For the first time, we talk to Dutch tourists before being picked up by the hop-on-hop-off shuttle bus, which takes us to the next location.
We only got a little bit wet. 😉
As we walk out of the park to our shuttle bus, we see a small group of people standing by a tree. And for the very first time, we see a perezoso, a sloth, in the wild. The fur is brownish, wiry, with a touch of green. Truly the perfect camouflage among all the greenery here. Arjan says, “Nice, we have been seen by them more often than we are seeing them now.”
We are ending the day with our butts in the bath. But it is a beautiful bath! Very Instagrammable.
We are at the Titoku Hot Springs, where 65 percent of the warm water comes from natural springs, supplemented with 35 percent cold water. There are 8 pools. The lowest pool is the ‘coldest’ at 36 degrees. The pool above that is 38 degrees, and so on. Arjan and I make it to pool 4 and skip the hotter pools. It might be doable on a colder day, but we notice that we are having trouble letting go of the heat in our bodies today.
Cooling off a bit from a sunbed, after which we opt for the 38-degree bath to splash around and have a photo session. Are you enjoying it too?
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