Saturday we headed up to the ‘jungle’ along the Congrejal river. Several operators in the area offer hiking tours, white-water rafting and other outdoor activites along the beautiful river. There are Class III – V rapids in the area but that was a little much to attempt with Kinsley :).
A view of the Congrejal river as it heads down into La Ceiba.
Instead we took a zip line tour through the canopy that included a short hike and interesting information from the guide on the plants and insects we passed — e.g. termites are good protien and crushing a handful of them then spreading them around makes a great mosquito repellant.
Laura Christel clipped in and ready to head out on one of the 9 cables that made up the tour.
K was not the least bit interested in getting into his webbing at the lodge and still needed some persuading after seeing the guides and us go on a practice cable. Once he went on the first cable, though, he was sold and loved it!
Cal and Kinsley in flight through the foliage.
The final cable was 600ft and took you across the river.
The rest of our time in the mountains consisted of interesting conversation with other tourists and enjoying the surroundings – including swimming in the ‘natural’ pools close to the lodge and the river.
The natural world offers fewer more enjoyable delights for K than throwing rocks into water. He was very keen to be taken across the river and he made the most of such ample supply of both rocks and water.
We enjoyed the rest of the fauna and flora as well.
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We did end up with some sunburn inspite of 50spf sunscreen. Thankfully our host family has aloe plants growing abundantly in their back yard 🙂
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