Wake up this morning was at 7:00 a.m. We needed to get up and have breakfast so that we could be on our way at a decent time for the 18 km trek planned for the day.
We started the trek with almost an hour of uphill terrain as we made our way out of the Pati Valley. Once we were back on the plateau, the landscape was relatively flat and the hiking was much less strenuous. The photo to the left shows us just after we ascended out of the valley and started across the plateau toward the Cachoeirao, a 300 m height waterfall.
The photo to the right shows Mike Mildon, Jon
Cannon, and Brennan de Langley as they ate their lunch from a lookout above the waterfall. Again, the views were incredible, but even more so when we walked around to the other side of the canyon after lunch. We had a perfect view of the waterfall from that side. It wasn´t a high volume waterfall, but the height was dizzying.
From there we retraced our steps back to the point where we first came up out of the Pati Valley. The designated meeting spot with the trucks was another 8 km in the opposite direction. Afternoon trekking was tough with the sun bearing down on us, but we were used to it by that point. We were also very much looking forward to the prospect of hot showers that evening. That opportunity alone drove us onward toward the trucks. The photo below shows us at the edge of a cliff marking the end of the plateau. From there we had a 30 minute descent along a swtch-back trail to more of a low-land region. It was only a short distance further to the trucks. Our pousada for the evening was in a small town called Mucuge. We had a great dinner at a local restaurant and enjoyed the comforts of much higher-end accommodations than those of the previous two nights.
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