We had an incredible experience at Balfour Garden! We got to go to a place we didn’t know so well! Most of the locals don’t know it either, they don’t let the big crowds in, and there is a barbed wire fence blocking the road to stop anyone going down. They opened the gate for us today and we could go down to paradise!
The word is gone, but the feeling remains!
The descent wasn’t a walk in the park either, we had to descend an almost vertical cliff face on a dusty, slippery hiking trail with few handholds. Then we followed the river for another half an hour (sometimes alongside it, sometimes in it) to our destination. Sometimes the jungle stood in our way.
An amazing sight and feeling! It really is a top 5 hike today! We came to the shore of a lake, surrounded by a semi-circular wall of rocks, with water running down the rocks everywhere!
It’s a huge chilly place, but you can feel yourself staring into wolf’s eye with a power that will crush you in an instant… After a good few days of rain the whole wall is white and the water level is a good few metres higher, the river is much wetter.
Coming up was not much easier. The dust didn’t really make the hike any easier. It made the steep ascent slippery, there wasn’t much of a handrail. In the end, everyone made it up safely and we were left with an everlasting memory!
That’s why we hike! I love it! If I had the energy, I’d go back now, but it’s going to take a while 😃Thank you Balfour Garden!
