点评:Falls are great but some other stuff, not so much. First, there is a ticket office for falls and a place called Nauyaca Falls Nature Park. They are different! This was confusing for us to figure out. Ticket office sells entry ticket for $10 pp and add ons.
We went to the ticket office by uber. Ticket woman was suspicious when we said we didn't have a car and that we wanted to walk. There must be an additional parking lot fee that she thought we were trying to get out of-I don't know why she was so unpleasant and unhelpful.
What she could have informed us of is that it's a mile walk to parking lot down a very steep "mountain" that's wet & slippery in spots. AND, that we would then have to walk UP that at the end of the day. Seriously--think climbing a ladder for a mile in the heat!
Also from parking lot, it's not too far in distance to falls, less than 2 miles, but portions of it are mud--sticky, thick mud that pulls off your shoes type of mud! In places you'll walk along a ledge, to keep from sinking into knee deep mud, that if you slip on, you're going down into the jungle.
Pretty dangerous hiking we weren't prepared for--made it--but would have appreciated a heads up about the conditions and would have done the shuttle to falls entrance or taken a horse...
At falls, we saw middle-to-older aged men, who looked pretty out of shape in their slippery struggles to climb, trying to climb falls to jump. Wow. When you see stories about stupid things tourists do, this seemed to be one.
Falls are quite spectacular though!
翻译:瀑布很棒,但其他一些地方就没那么好了。首先,瀑布售票处和诺亚卡瀑布自然公园(Nauyaca Falls Nature Park)是两个地方。这两个地方完全不一样!这让我们很困惑。售票处门票每人10美元,另加一些附加服务。
我们打优步去了售票处。当我们说没车,想步行时,售票员起了疑心。她以为我们想逃停车费,肯定是要额外付停车费——我不明白她为什么这么不友好,也不乐于助人。
她本来可以告诉我们,从一座非常陡峭的“山”下去到停车场要走一英里,山上有些地方又湿又滑。而且,我们一天下来还得再爬上去。说真的——想想在这么热的天气里爬一英里梯子!
从停车场到瀑布也不算远,不到2英里,但部分路段是泥泞的——那种黏糊糊的厚泥,会把鞋子都扯掉!有些地方,为了不陷入齐膝深的泥里,你得沿着岩架行走,否则一旦滑倒,就得掉进丛林里了。
这次徒步相当危险,我们之前没有做好准备——不过还是坚持下来了——但如果事先知道路况,就更希望乘坐班车或者骑马前往瀑布入口……
在瀑布边,我们看到一些中老年男子,他们看起来身体状况很差,在湿滑的路面上艰难地攀爬,试图爬上瀑布往下跳。哇!当你看到关于游客愚蠢行为的故事时,这似乎就是其中之一。
不过瀑布真的很壮观!