Pulhapanzak Falls

The guide book says, "local boys,..., will offer their services to guide visitors to a cave behind the falls, where Mayan artifacts are reputed to have been found. The boys will also show you a couple of great places to (safely) jump out into the water."

Let me be the editor. When they say behind the falls, they really mean straight through them, under the downpour falling 43 meters onto your head, which blinds you as you are armpit deep in a pool shuffeleing your way between current and boulder. But the indentation in the rocks gives you a chance to look up into a break to see it cascade down over and behind you with the sun shining through its curtain. And the cave is muddy and mucky and dark and you hudle down in it, finally dry and listen to the downpour and imagine a person that would want to hide there, and what they are hiding from. And safely jump, yes, but maybe they should simply say, how high.






My housemate Ted jumping (safely).