Friday, August 30, 2013

Ecuador #9 An attempt at a waterfall walk

Sunday Afternoon, the Richardsons (once again, two of my favorite people in Ecuador) brought us home after church (we still don't have our car) and offered to take us on a little excursion to go on a walk to a waterfall about 45 minutes away. Since I had not yet spent more than 5 hours with them this weekend I readily agreed (I've seen them every weekend for a month so far). Funnily enough, the drive there took about an hour and fifteen, more than we had been told. The people who kept telling us directions were all misleading and we flipped quite a few U-turns before finding the destination: Molinuco resort.

What we arrived at, having high hopes!

Not bad :) 
  Upon arrival we were quite hopeful because it looked rather nice. We started the supposed 10 minute walk to the waterfall and after about 15, we asked someone on the trail who said we had gone the wrong way. We turned around and walked for another 15 and asked someone. They said the waterfall was another hour away..... By this time it was already 5:45 or so and it gets dark pretty timely at 6 or 6:30 here in Ecuador. So most of us went back to the car. Stephen wanted to see it, so he ran to the waterfall and back in about a half hour. Still a fun trip because the Richardson's are fun but now we know never to listen to ANYONE's advice.
This ended up being about as much of a waterfall as we saw and this was back at the resort. Ha. :)


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