Jill and David and Travels with Nancy: Casada de Misol-Ha and Aqua Azul

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Casada de Misol-Ha and Aqua Azul

Another early start and heading south towards Ocosingo and San Cristobal along good roads.

we stopped at Casada de Misol-Ha.

You could walk behind the falls

to a cave with a stream and waterfall in it.

Very beautiful

and possible to swim in but as the day was still young and we hadn't boiled over yet we saved our swim for the next stop. Aqua Azul was a further 25 kms up the road in wonderful countryside

past roadside markets selling clothes.

The falls were spread over a large area

and were what Semuc Champey would be like if the river flowed through the pools not underneath them.

By this time we were hot enough for a swim but the water wasn't as warm as the Caribbean but very refreshing none the less.

Travelling on towards San Cristobal on a wonderful windy biking road we arrived around 1700 and found a hotel with good parking for Nancy and a comfortable room for us.

At 2100 metres the climate here is much cooler, being almost chilly at night, but a great relief from the stick heat of the Yucatan.

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Сергей ArgailApril 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Cascade Falls is beautiful... place like this we have in Arkansas... pics Im have som on my Blog
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Thank you for visiting our Blog of our motor bike travels through the Americas on a BMW R80 G/S.We hope you get as much pleasure reading it as we hope to have writing about our adventures. And of course we hope you will get in touch with us via the 'comments' box on the Blog.

For those of you who don't know us yet, we just thought we would take a moment to introduce ourselves.

First of all we are two middle aged youngsters having a gap year or more. The decision to up sticks and travel for a while had organic origins. For David, to see more the world, how other folks live and to challenge some of his own beliefs, has been an ambition for quite some time. For me travelling to other parts of the world has been one of those things I have wanted to do with my life, but with less philosophical questions in mind, more an inquisitiveness about places and people; the question was always when and how.

I guess also that lately both of us were beginning to question what after a combined 108 years on the planet, with most of that caught up in the work cycle, is it all about. Is it all about work and pension, or are there other ways of enriching our lives. I guess we may never know the answer to that conundrum, but we jointly felt that human life is short in the greater scheme of things, and it seemed to us that there is so much to see and do in the world.

It was not easy arriving at the decision to put on hold our lives as we knew it, in order to explore what it is possible to know about ourselves in the world. There were all sorts of compromises to make. Consequently, the decision took around 5 yrs from initial musings to a full blown plan. Well we say plan. There was no plan other than to travel. The decision about where and how to travel ranged from backpacking to sailing, to camper-vanning, and motorbiking. In the end we both enjoy biking and camping, having travelled extensively by bike through Europe, and we had an idea it might be fun to bike the Pan American Highway from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. And of course we needed to do it whilst we are still fit enough to handle a fully loaded bike and the challenges of camping.

So that was it. Given the green light David set about feverishly planning, whilst I completed my PhD which was finally submitted just as we departed.

And so as we pulled away from our home, waved off by our friends, began the realisation that it is possible to take our lives in a different direction, in the pursuit of understanding what.....it is all about.

Let the journey begin........

Jill and David and Travels with Nancy

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Casada de Misol-Ha and Aqua Azul

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