Rincon Falls

Yesterday (Saturday) we hiked to Trinidad's second highest waterfall, Rincon falls. According to one of the guys with us it was 180 feet tall. It was beautiful. We were with a group of people from the office who regularly go for hikes like this and who know where thy're going.

It wasn't a very long hike distance wise (approximately 2.5 km), but there was quite a bit of climbing on the way. The heat and humidity are something we're still getting used to - even though we started the hike at approximately 8:30 in the morning. The start of the hike was about a one hour drive north of Port of Spain, just past the main beach- Maracus, so it was an early morning for us!

We hiked through the rainforest and although we were pretty tired from the heat and the Friday afternoon "Lime" at the office ("Liming" deserves a post unto it's own) it was beautiful to experience the 'flora and fauna' of a tropical island. When we got to the falls, the forest opened up and there was a pond where we all took a nice refreshing swim and explored the smaller falls below the pond. We were sure to explain to the Trinis along with us that the water was far from cold - try Georgian Bay in June!

After the hike we drove further east along the road to a small town called Blanchisseuse. There was a culinary festival going on where they were providing several different local cuisines which you could choose from. It was a really neat setting as it felt along way from the tourist scene - not that there really is much of a tourist scene here in Trinidad.

The food was provided from locals and included several traditional Trini foods such as callaloo, jerk chicken, creole chicken, breadfruit, indian flavours and yummy seafood. It was delicious. There was also a local musical group playing to entertain the crowd. you will see the picture below. And finally before heading home we had to go down to the beach for a quick swim in the ocean.

The pictures really tell the story, so I'll stop typing and let you take a look.....