The bamboo Rainforest/ Waterfall Hike

While Driving to Hana, we saw some of our friends on the side of the road, they had just finished a hike to three water-falls. An un-marked hike, through a bambo rainforest. They thought it was great - their kids enjoyed it and had fun playing in the water-fall pools. I was unwilling to swim in dirty water - but I thought the hike would be fun - so we changed in the car - into the swim suits we had on had (just in case we did get wet) and opted to abort our trip to Hana and try the hike!

We started out - entering a forest from the side of the road, where one small 2foot section of fence was gone and just sort of went! They said stay left the whole way and we sort of did that too!

The start was great. We had to jump a little ravine, and cross a little river (I in my thick, somewhat slick sandles, and John in his sandles) we came to another section of bamboo - and every direction looked like a path.. find the left path took a few tries! But the bamboo was really cool!







We found the first water-fall. It wasn't huge - but it was remarkable! It had a little pool of water and it was nice. We took a few pictures and started heading to the next water-fall. The hike got a little more difficult/slick/steep, and when we made it to the 2nd water-fall. The pool of water was fairly large and the rounded back wall was cool -but the water-fall a little smaller. The 'stay left' policy brought us to a sheer rock wall - looking steep and slick. so we figured that couldn't be it and followed the river a little until we couldn't and the only way to go was up.

Up the side of a hill/mountain/cliff - whatever - and where there was no straight path. At least not until after we made it through, up, over, and under the twisted branches and steep hill area. Then it was straight - up. It was okay for a while but then got more slick and more steep and we had to hold on the branches, roots and foilage to pull ourselves up.

I kept telling John it was the wrong path - that there was no way our pregnant friend (7 or 8 months?) would do this with her kids. He was sure we were okay - because they said it was steep but got better. So we kept going.... to the top... of the other side of the mountain - no where near the river and no where close to a level ground area! Going up was the easy part apparently, because as it started to rain on us in spurts, the only way down looked like sitting on our rumps and sliding down. But too worried about staining my $10.00 pair of pants - I gave in and scaled down.