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Jaunted in Honduras: Pulhapanzak Waterfall

Where: Honduras
December 13, 2006 at 12:00 PM | by pbb | 4 Comments



Jaunted contributing editor Paul Brady just returned from a tour through Honduras, the original Banana Republic. We'll be posting stories this week about his travels in the tropics. Have any burning questions?

Now, I didn't want to spend my entire trip in Utila. So I eventually packed up the swim trunks and my new tan and took the ferry back to the mainland. After catching a bus in La Ceiba, on the northern coast, I rode south to Lago de Yojoa. The lake, between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, is a gem (though in recent years, it's shrunk in size because of environmental damage).

There are a couple of nature lodge/all-inclusives surrounding the lake, and I stayed at Agua Azul, on the road between La Guama and Pena Blanca. Why was I in the middle of nowhere? To swim beneath the tongue-twisting Pulhapanzak Waterfall that drops 140 feet (Niagara Falls is 170) near the town of San Buenaventura. What it's like, after the jump.

Yeah, that's it above. The noise, which is loud on the video, is deafening in real life. You can walk down to the bottom of the falls by yourself, but to get closer, you'll need to hire a guide for 100 Lempiras ($5). They're around, but you'll have to search them out. Once you do, they'll promise you "la mejor aventura" in the caves behind the falls. Trust me, it is the best adventure.

Dress to get soaked. Not wet. Soaked. To the last pore, inside your ears, wet to an extent you may have never been. (My buddy claimed "that waterfall washed away my sins.") I followed my guide through chest-deep water under the falls, then caught my breath behind the sheets of water in a small cave. After a few minutes, we went back out, dove in a pool at the foot of the falls and swam back to a bank of the river. Even beaten and soaked, we were all smiles.

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  1. markj

    Jaunted

    a mejor aventura?

    What was it?  Blackwater rafting?
    December 13, 2006 at 12:12 PM
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  1. pbb

    Jaunted Member

    the mejor

    There aren't any rafts around... It just happens to be a big drop in the Rio Lindo. The caves themselves aren't too big, and water doesn't flow through them. But they're mighty nice after getting pummeled by the waterfall. The adventure, as I see it, is plunging in the pools and going underneath the full force of the falls. (I also was foolish enough to do it after two days of rain that saturated the river.)
    December 13, 2006 at 12:32 PM
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  1. markj

    Jaunted

    Got it.

    The force of those falls must be incredible.

    Though I was secretly hoping there was black water rafting in the caves.

    December 13, 2006 at 1:15 PM
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  1. servantgabriel

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    Pulhapanzak Honduras

    Hi guys... Thanks for the video of the falls. My friend Jeni and I just got back (June 21, 2007) to Florida from sharing the love of God with kids at the orphanage home AHLE in San Francisco de Yojoa. Before coming home, we took one of the workers (Tutor Henry) to the falls. Wao!! We took the tour behind the falls and loved it! We were sharing how the waterfall represents Jesus in us....the top God's love--the source, and the bottom, the world. The falls never go backwards, only forwards. So thus the love of God...flowing constantly to others. Jesus the Messiah said "He who believes in me, out of his innermost being, will flow rivers of living waters" John 7:37. Jeni read your comment: My buddy claimed "that waterfall washed away my sins." and she told me how she wished someone would tell you about Jesus. He came for exactly that.. to wash away our sins. He is the Perfect Clean Water that washes us (the dirty water) and makes us Holy. In God's plan, Jesus came to die on the cross as payment of our wrong-doings. He is the prophesized Savior and as He said, whosoever believes in Him will not perish, but have Eternal Life... and from his/her innermost being will flow rivers of Living Waters!!

    Blessings, gabriEl

    June 23, 2007 at 1:20 PM
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