Valle de Cocora - Indiana Jones with wet pants

For the second day, I gathered another couple of people that I met at the hostel  to take a Wheely (Jeep) to the Valle de Cocora, that is supposed to have the highest wax palms in Colombia, all placed in a valley between the mountains.
It is a really steep hike through the jungle that takes about 5 hours... For me it was a long 5 hours because it doesn´t take me longer than 15 minutes to slip on a stone while trying to pass over a river and falling right into it. Not a surprise for anybody that knows me for a while, right? ;)
Well, so half of my clothes are soaking wet for the rest of the hike, which wouldn´t even have been that bad because it is a warm day, but as I said, the hike is pretty steep, so up in the altitude it gets kind of cold.
None the less, I think making it up there anyways (and back!) officially qualifies you as some kind of Indiana Jones! :) At least that is exactly what you feel like, going up through deep jungle, passing waterfalls and rivers over small wodden bridges that look like they will break into a thousand pieces with every step you make!
Some young guy from Switzerland almost runs on by us twice on the way, still no idea how he did that. I´m pretty sure he must have had a lot of Red Bull or something like that! It´s the only explanation that meks sense, right? ;)
It is very much worth the excaustion though because at the top of the valley we get served a great hot portion of Aguapanela con Queso. It is a local specialty, tastes like very very veeeeeeeeeeeeery sweet honey water (actually is natural sugar though) and is indeed served with cow cheese that you tear in little pieces and throw right into it. I know, it sounds aweful but after a hike like that it tastes just wonderful!