Hurricane? Please

I'm not talking about the festival.

So that storm I mentioned is actually a hurricane/cyclone. It's been raining nonstop and even though the palm trees look beautiful in the wind, it is actually a bit scary.

Still, we couldn't sit around in the TV lounge all day. Sarah and I met two of the Travelworks girls we came here with in the same hostel, so we all decided to set out in the rain and do the hiking track through the mangroves to Haruru Falls.

After not even thirty minutes of walking we were completely alone in the mangrove forest.

It felt oddly like hiking through a rain forest. Water still dripped down from above but it was warm and humid.












The forest was half suspended in water and after a while we weren't sure how 'normal' this was.

Then we reached the bridge taking us further into the forest and realized, yep, this is definitely flooded.

The water is so blue but it doesn't show in the pictures.

The amazing part came right after. When we walked over a tiny walkway, the water lapping against the sides, with trees reaching down into the depth of the water beneath us.

I would upload more pictures if they even remotely did the beauty of this forest justice.

After literal hours of walking (and dreading the rising water level) we finally reached the falls. We took a less scenic route back along the highway, completely drenched and exhausted but happy.

One more for the road: