Our last morning in Coatepec we had a good breakfast in a little cafe, bought our bus ticket from Xalapa back to Veracruz, and packed up our things. We left our bags downstairs in our hotel and went for one last waterfall hike.
We headed north through town, and gradually it became more out of town. The paved road became dirt and cars stopped driving past. We found one small weathered sign for la Cascada Bola de Oro, or Ball of Gold Waterfall, and after that we had to rely on intuition and relative proximity based on offline Google maps.
When we finally came across some people to ask, we found intuition had taken us too far. So we backtracked and asked another guy for directions, and finally found the path off the main road.
We still weren't 100% sure we weren't just walking onto someone's coffee farm, but because there was no one to double check with there also wasn't anyone to yell at us, so we did it.
5 minutes down the road, against all odds, we found the waterfall.
It appeared that the river had been altered to serve some irrigation purposes at some point, so the lower part was a small waterfall over a man made wall.
Further back in the little grotto was a natural waterfall. And the whole area was lovely and cool with the water running through.
We didn't have too long to hang around since we had to get back to town to collect our packs then taxi into Xalapa to catch our bus, but it was a lovely way to spend the morning. We got some exercise, some fresh air, and some rural Mexico views.
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