Thursday we jaloned (hitchhiked) to Phulapansak falls with two of the youth HIV facilitators I work with.
It takes about two hours to get there normally by car and it took us three hours to get there hitchhiking so it wasn’t too bad (although hitchhiking is not a commonly accepted mode of transportation in the states it is perfectly safe in Honduras...unless of course the bed of the truck is full of pineapples and you have to straddle the edge of the truck).
On the way back we actually got picked up in an SUV and he stopped to buy us drinks and then took us past where he was going to drop us off in Santa Barbara.
First we went with a guide into the water below the falls which is completely ridiculous and unsafe, but great fun. As you can see from the picture, the water is dirty due to rain, which also means that the falls were extra full and the current extra strong. Then we jumped off the rocks below.
Ian and I also did the canopy tour (it is not actually a canopy tour, just a series of zip lines, the last one crossing over the falls).
I was pretty scared beforehand but it actually wasn’t that bad, even if you look down.
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