Damajagua Waterfalls.

Don’t forget that name lol. It’s a wonderful excursion if you’re into a million mile climb uphill/ in a bathing suit/helmet and water shoes through the muggy rainforest followed by more climbing but thankfully treacherously downhill.  If you're lucky it will rain to create a nice muddy path, like we had!

Our first sign of civilization (excluding an area of benches that was "just about there") is a canyon with a wooden platform over a rushing river.  That is where you’ll back down a ladder into the water.  The first little slide is the drowning one lol. Be alert, I didn’t realize that the first was the worst! There is no bottom that I could find.  I thought we could do a jump or a slide so I figured this must be a kiddie slide.  Well it wasn’t.  One of the guides had to pull me from under the slide where a small undertow took me. That’s what that loop on the back of the neck is for..  Julian said I’m exaggerating but I thought I was going to drown.  Imagine going freely down a slide where you expect to push off the bottom then float down the canyon like everyone else…. Yeah it wasn’t.  

Once I am whisked (this water is moving at a fairly rapid speed) down to where I can touch, there is a cameraman!  Perfect! My near drowning caught in a photo lest I forget! 

I think my biggest issue here was assuming what came next.  And, no, I didn’t learn from the first, second or even third assumption since this excursion began!  After the photo shoot we step out into deep water again but it’s ok, the strong current and floating device make it easy peazy!  It’s like a lazy but fast river ride, for about thirty seconds till you venture around a drastic turn in the canyon and see about 20 other floaters, right before you connect to them like you're all magnetized.  The strong current was along the bottom of the canyon nudging everyone to become uncomfortably intimate with total strangers!  Awkward just doesn’t seem to capture the horror of finding oneself in that close proximity to an individual that possibly isn’t in your immediate family much less your tour group!  Everything else was anti-climatic involving a 20ft jump off a cliff into a small pool of water and more tramping through the woods. Would I do it again? Probably Not... am I glad that I did it?? Yep!

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