The Duke of Edinburgh's award portion of our trip ended with the completion of the hike on Saturday, but there was still plenty planned for our final two days in Chapada Diamantina. Yesterday we travelled about two hours from Mucuge to visit the Buracao Waterfall. A 3 km walk to get to the falls was well worth the effort. As you can see from the photo to the right, it was quite an incredible sight. We were able to climb down into the canyon a few hundred metres away from the spot you can see at the bottom left of this photo. We spent some time there jumping into the water from a 3-4 metre high platform, before swimming along a narrow channel to get within sight of the waterfall. The photo below shows Greg Vandemark and Wes Tiller jumping off this platform, but all of the guys made the same jump more than once.
Once in the main canyon and in sight of the falls, we were told that we could swim right over to the actual waterfall. From there our guide showed the boys how to climb up to a rock ledge from which you could shimmy out behind the waterfall. The boys were able to jump out through the falling water and back into the pool below. They say it stung a bit as they penetrated the falling water, but this was to be expected considering the fact that the water falls from a height of almost 75 metres. It was definitely an interesting experience for everyone. The photo below shows a number of the boys as they're making their way in behind the falls.
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