Previously on The Traveling Together Journal
We finally get out of the city,
and enjoyed some outdoor adventures
before widening our way from central Oaxaca to the state of Chiapas.
We left this morning from the hotel on the side of the highway San Rafael and
drove into the state of Chiapas, and we are currently at Cascadas el Aquacero
and we're going to descend I guess down to where there's some waterfalls and
we're going to hike through a river.
Jaeger you want to go for a hike?
Ruf, ruf (yes!)
Yeah?
Yes, yes, yes, ruff, ruff, ruff
yeah
Wow, this place is super pretty!
Camera's never do nature justice.
Jaeger is all about that water. He is like "oh yeah".
Brown bear in his native environment.
I feel like we got to climb it.
We got to get up there and check it out.
Let's got!
I don't think I can get up this part.
Alright, we got up here. Now we got to get back down.
We're making our way back up from the river, and it is a lot of steps.
It's over 700 steps I'm pretty sure, and it is still way easier than all that hiking we
were trying to do north of Oaxaca. Those high elevations, and it was totally worth it.
That River was one of the coolest rivers I've ever been to.
Absolutely stunning.
Like waterfalls all over the place, and just like dragonflies, and birds, and butterflies,
and the water was like the perfect temperature, and it was all sand bottom
not like all mud and stuff like most rivers. So it was super fun just to like
trek up the river. Very cool. Very worth the stop, so far I think it's worth the
climb back up.
As usual Jagger's leading the way. Blazing the trail.
Super senior.
That's one tired puppy. He had fun at that waterfall River.
Hey, Jaegies.
He's like "what"?
We left the really stunning beautiful Cascadas el Agua Cerro this morning
after hanging out for a few hours there. We're on our way to El Chiflon
this is one of those places that I've been dreaming about since back in Maui.
I've been following a lot of people on Instagram and this is like one of those
things where you see photographs like most overlanders end up at this place at
some point and the photographs are just super cool. So, I'm excited and looking
forward to El Chiflon.
Oh, this guys is backing up anyways.
Matt how's your driving day going today?
Not very good. I'm letting all the stuff get to me.
So we had to go through a big city, and I hate cities. I hate driving in cities,
and then Chiapas just loves speed bumps. And they're really into the kind that
are like square, like they're more like a parking curb and then a speed bump.
So you have to like slow down to nothing to like crawl over them, and then they don't
like to just put in a speed bump where they want you to slow down.
They put in like six just in a row.
So it's starting to get pretty annoying, and now our road is deteriorating and we
got a bunch of pot holes. Anyway there's not a speed bump there's a pothole.
One more hour Matt. One more hour. You can hold it together can't ya?
Yeah it's fine.
Normally I like, feel like I do a pretty good job of not letting all that kind of
stuff bother me, but maybe just because we've been driving more in the last couple days
and then... like I'm trying to get us somewhere before it gets dark again.
So it's just kind of like when you're
actually trying to drive a little bit faster it's more annoying.
But we'll get there.
Jag's shut-up.
We've arrived at El Chiflon and we went with the cheaper of the two options for camping.
There's one where we're at and then there's another campground on the
other side, and now we are looking for rocks, because the parking lot is not
even it's not set up for truck campers. It's set up to like park here and then go
and hike to where you can camp right on the river. So if we wanted to like camp
in our tent we could get a pretty sweet spot, but we don't have camping mats so
we have a tent but no camping mats. Anyways, we're over here just trying to
find some good rocks put under the tires.
I have a new routine I'm trying to make happen.
It's Spanish and coffee. So I have coffee every single morning and I kind
of just prefer to just chill and not really do too much.
So I've been trying to study Spanish,
and while I'm studying Spanish.
Matt is fixing up some projects that we've got.
We got that light, which is right there, and he's wiring it up.
This is our fuse block for our camper, and I luckily have one remaining spot for
another line so just wiring up our lights so that it'll
have a fuse on it. We don't burn out our system.
And I put in a switch so that we can turn them on and off from inside, and so we just hit the little switch.
And the light out there is on.
It's like a little mini tarantula.
Oh no.
Now it lives inside of our awning.
What are you working on Matt.
I'm making us some cables to lock up our
stuff, because we like to keep all this stuff outside since that's where our
living space is, but I always feel nervous about leaving it outside.
So this way we can lock it to the truck.
The other thing we did is lock our solar panels to
the frame of the truck.
Getting a pretty late start to going and looking at El Chiflon.
We had a lot of projects that had been building up and we didn't even get our laundry done.
This is one of the first theme parks, natural theme parks that
Jaegers been allowed in. Most of them say no dogs.
Mexico has had a surprising number of these well-established like natural
attraction kind of places with these like concrete walking paths and stuff like that.
Which is always a little bit of a downer for me, because we always come to
these kind of things to like see the nature and the beauty, but there's always
undoubtedly going to be like a bunch of pipes and stuff running along the side
of the river, but it's still probably overall a positive since it makes it so
more people are able to come here and the local Ejido can make some money and
conserve a Natural Area. So, and we still get to come see it and waterfalls are
still pretty cool.
What's really crazy about this waterfall is that there is another one on top of this one.
And there are more lower ones too
And yeah there is defiantly, it just keeps going and going.
This waterfall is on top of a waterfall that's on top of a bigger waterfall, on top of a bunch of small waterfalls.
That's a lot of waterfalls.
It was a lot of stairs.
It's a lot of stairs.
It's day 139 of travel for us, and we are leaving El Chiflon in the state of Chiapas
and headed to some lakes, rivers, hiking, hike to other lakes thing.
We don't know what it's called. We don't know how long it's gonna take us to get there.
The telephone GPS are not working. We haven't had any service for a while. So we are getting a
nice early start and we will end up somewhere.
Sounds like a plan
Next time on The Traveling Together Journal.
We stick to the lakes and the rivers of Southern Mexico.
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