The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Today we hiked down the other side of the canyon, along a path that used to be used to smuggle contraband sugarcane alcohol out of Banos.

It was supposed to be a nice scenic walk past more waterfalls.

It turned out to be a harrowing journey past lots of waterfalls.

We were terrorized by snakes.

Crossed treacherous bridges.

Entrapped by spider webs (this is hard to take a picture of so here are some pretty flowers instead).

Stared down by creepy cows, both at a distance and about 2 feet away as we had to walk past them on the path.

Trudged through mud and cow pies.

The views were quite nice and could distract us from some of the more stressful events.

This is looking back towards where we started. However by now you couldn’t see the dam anymore. 

Picked up a hitchhiker.

Threatened by flowers.

Swarmed by butterfies

Stampeded by horses.

I think we mentioned there were nice flowers along the path.

Occasional pictures of Matt were taken to keep spirits high.

Oh and more swarms of butterflies were encountered.

Here we are even further away from the dam.

Here Kerri is looking less sure about our future trail path, would we ever escape?

Blockaded by cows.

Balanced over gorges.

Revelled in the weak breeze as we made it to a break in the trees.

Followed an imaginary trail.

Confused by signage.

Climbed halfway up a mountain.

Chased back down by an old man.

Jumped over barbed wire.

Confused by threatening looking flowers.

Mocked by Inca Jay birds.

They were actually quite cool with the different colours.

We finally made it to the end of the trail, but at the end we were trapped on the wrong side.

So a terrifying gondola ride back was required to get back across the river.