I have climbed this mountain 5 times and made it to the summit 3 times - you need to pay attention on the trail and I would recommend setting wands or twist ties on branches (make sure you remove them on the way down!) in order to stay orientated. Pitch your tent when you reach a tiny clearing. If you get thrown off while circumnavigating one of several hurricane-felled trees, just look for machete marks and backtrack to the trail. With some luck you might see the beautiful green toucans, quetzals, wild boars, monkeys, and/or a one-in-a-million jaguar. At this point you will start seeing the typical cloud forest vegetation: orchids, bromeliads, mosses, lichens, tree ferns and others. The following day is a steep hike up to the second camp (elevation - 2,000m), that should take roughly 5 hrs. You'll then climb for about four hours along a sweet-gum-forested ridgetop and then zigzag across the Río del Sol until you reach a two-pronged waterfall at La Chorrera, the base camp where you'll sleep the first night located near a refreshing crystal water stream (4 hrs).įrom here, the sometimes faint trail rises steeply for five hours. You sould notice fallen trees that act as benches. Getting ThereYou should arrange transportation in a 4x4 vehicle from Tegucigalpa or La Ceiba to Gualaco (elevation - 500m) that will take approximately 6 hrs.įrom Gualaco, head north toward San Esteban, turning east after three miles onto a marked dirt road, which you'll follow until it dead-ends at the trailhead. Temperatures range between 5 and 25 degrees centigrade and the flora and fauna composition give this park a truly unique appearance. The amazing scenery, very abrupt topography, and permanently cloudy area gives a high relative humidity near the top of the mountains, where hundreds of crystalline and pure water creeks give way to lush vegetation decorated with abundant epiphytes. This remote cloud forest is isolated from the other cloud forests in Honduras and some unique endemic species have already been found by scientists.
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