Yesterday, we took a cab to a place where there was a bus. We took the bus to an old farm in the middle of the country. We asked a lady at the farm to locate a trail for us. And then we hiked the trail almost straight vertically for about 40 minutes. At the end was...a magnificent waterfall!

Two or three Colombian dudes offer a rappelling service where you literally just rappell over the side of the waterfall. As you descend the 180 meters, the water pounds down on your head like pennies someone keeps throwing down. The side is extremely slipery but there's lots of crevice to put your feet. I was scared as shit, needless to say, but I pulled it off. The hardest part of rappelling is the very start, when you have to fight every instinct and lean backwards off the side of a cliff. I made it a point to not look down until like a third of the way down.

Once I was going down, I noticed that my rope had periodic bundles of electrical tape to cover up frays. This would never fly in the states, but oh well, I made it.

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