P-Day Adventures... Cascada de Estanzuela

For P-day yesterday, we went to a water fall high up in the mountains of Esteli. It was beautiful day for hiking. You can see how lush and green the jungle is. There are farms/small houses scattered about each growing their own crop of corn, beans, melons, or several varieties of bananas. Along the road there are chickens everywhere. I guess they let their dinner wander until ready for preparation. 

The national bird here is the fly. They are everywhere! Some even bite. Houses we visit don't have screens on windows and if they don't have windows, they just have holes in the wall. Plus, there are always big gap both under and above their doors.

Yesterday we saw a big spider on the wall of a family we visited. I kept my eye on it during the message just in case it wandered up my pant leg. We're loving life!

-Elder Koelliker

This is a field with some sort of vegetable growing. Couldn't tell.
The thing hanging from the tree are litter bottles strung together to make a Nicaraguan scarecrow.
It blows in the wind and makes little noises. I need to try this in my garden!

The little parking lot made available for cars to park at the entrance to the waterfall.
Notice the grass was burned and painted, white rocks were used for parking lines.
Simple and it works as long as you don't hit a rock.

Cascada de Estanzuela...
a beautiful waterfall with a pool that many tourists come to swim. 

missionary selfie :)

 

We hiked through the jungle to get to the top of the waterfall. That was a fun climb trying not to fall. We held onto branches and weeds for dear life. We made it and found it worth the hike. We were at least 100 feet above the pool.

We couldn't get over the beauty of this area.
Heavenly Father sure created a beautiful world for us to enjoy.
There is beauty all around, we just have to look for it or in this case, hike to it! 

More pictures of flowers. There are all kinds of butterflies around.

The farmer we spoke with said they put these yoke things around the necks of cows
 so they won't wander in fields or other places they aren't supposed to go.

the dirt roads

Esteli in the background.