Sometimes while traveling you can stumble across a place that will impact your view of the world. This was one of those places. I've heard that if you keep driving that eventually you will see everything. I know that is not true. Sometimes you have to get out of your vehicle and start walking. During a backpacking trip I spent two nights camped near these waterfalls. From the hilltop parking lot where civilization as you know it must be left behind to the village was approximately nine miles. The only way to get there is hiking or by horseback. In the village there was a shiny helicopter ready to fly in case of any serious emergency situation. There was a little store/restaurant. There was an elementary school and a church. After hiking quite some distance past the village you find the turquoise blue green water hidden from mainstream society. Thank goodness that has remained so hidden. I fear that it would have not been able to survive the modern world of progress. If you have been there, I'm sure that you'll never forget it. If you are going there, enjoy it as another place from another time. Leave nothing behind except your footprints. And please don't tell another soul the location of the people of the blue-green water. If you do, when you want to return someday, you'll find it has turned into a parking lot connected to a overcrowded luxury tourist trap.
No comments:
Post a Comment