My Equator Adventure: The waterfalls of Juayua

April 3, 2016

In Santa Ana, I ran into Nabeel again who I had met in Leon during volcano boarding. I headed out one morning with him and some folks he had met to the nearby town of Juayua (why-yoo-ah). Every weekend it holds a food festival, so we decided to check it out.

The bus was easy, and we hopped off in the center of town. We got directions from a shopkeeper, and headed off towards the waterfalls 20 minutes out of town which I had read about and then forgotten about.

It was an easy but dusty walk to get to Los Chorros de la Calera.

They were beautiful. Natural waterfalls with pools built at the bottom to make an excellent swimming escape.

Having forgotten about the waterfalls, I had no swimsuit or towel with me. But they were just too inviting, so I jumped in with my undies and decided to deal with damp clothing later.

So worth it.

The water was a bit nippy, though it wasn't terrible once you were in. I'm proud to say I'm getting much better at cold water, and it didn't take 10 minutes for me to convince myself to jump in.

We all had fun swimming around. Nick had a GoPro we put to use.

Blurry picture from water drops makes me giggle.

Then we went to the second waterfall around the corner.

We did a group shot with the GoPro which clicked every 5 seconds. Instead of picking the best, here's the sequence. Left to right: Martina, Philip, Kyla, me, Nick, and Nabeel.