Splashy Weekend Part II

Sunday morning we got an early start, we had a great traditional breakfast that included beans, scramble eggs with ham, fresh orange juice, and tortillas. Still a little sleepy we made our way back to the bus and headed towards La Cascada El Meco, which is in El Naranjo, still part of Huasteca Potosina.

La Cascada El Meco was just breathtaking, and to be honest if the first waterfall I have ever seen so it was so amazing to see the force and magnitude
of this waterfall. We had time to sit in the observatory, take pictures and enjoy the site. Back on the bus!!



We drove for a bit to our next waterfall destination, Cascada de Minas Viejas and in this one we could swim. We made our way through the muddy road to get to the water, but it was well worth it. We got on our life-vests on, walked down this rock wall and splash!! Into the water. I was just in awe to be swimming right next to this enormous waterfall, many were jumping off small cliff but I must admit I was to chicken to do it. We must have been there for at least an hour and then guess what? Back on the bus!!


by April Sears


By this time we are all starving from all the swimming and sitting on the bus on our wet swimsuits, so we stopped for a well earned lunch. We stopped at D’ Picón Restaurante, also in El Naranjo, were they had set up our tables in the patio right by the river. We got served once again this very testy food, we had meatloaf, steak, rice, Mac' n cheese, vegetables soup and jamaica juice. I eat everything!





Once again back on the bus towards our final destination, Rio Verde. This drive was a little longer so I had time to read a little bit of my Harry Potter book in Spanish of curse, and take a nap. We arrived at Rio Verde and we made our way down this really steep road and the whole time I was thinking "we have to climb this thing back up." We got our life-vest back on and got to swim in this little natural pool, we all looked like sitting ducks or a harem of seals, all these little blue vest people just floating. One of those people decided to go explorer a cave that was at the end of the swimming hole and was greeted by a snake that was hiding in the cave, I have never seen someone swim so fast in my life.


By April Sears
After a while we started to make our way out of the snake-blue-vested waterhole and had to face the reality of climbing that hill back up. All the girls got in my bus and we decided to change into dry cloth, well the bus driver couldn’t on the bus to turn on the AC so we were like chicken in a pen, all scrambling to get dress and out.


The drive back to Queretaro was not as bad as the way up there; we made it home around 1 a.m. safe and sound. I have little pictures from this day since I had a water proof camera and I have not gotten it developed yet, but soon.

I wanted to thank Ecorioexpediciones for their outstanding job in all the excursions we did over the weekend. They took care of the foods, the hotels and all these places we visited, they went above and beyond to make sure we had a great and safe trip. Please visit their website: