Day 3 – in and around San Cristóbal: We will be in this area for about a week and since some of our initial plans fizzled out and our first real contact is not until Sunday evening, we decided to head out in the car to see what we could see.
Our plan was to go to see the Lagos de Montebello, but due to the strange instructions we received we wound up somewhere else. What we have discovered is that perceptions of time and distance, at least among those who give directions as if they know what they are talking about, are matters of absolute relativity.
We were told to take a certain road for about 15 minutes and that this would get us to the lakes we wished to see. It was mentioned that we would have to turn at a certain point, but it is a matter of amused debate as to which place that would have been. In any case, there was absolutely nothing 15 minutes down the road. We continued on until we found a place to stop without being smashed by the zooming community transport trucks. There we asked again and were told that no, the lakes were off in another direction but that there were some waterfalls about 15 minutes down the road.
Not less than 40 minutes later we pulled off onto a bumpy entry to the Cascadas de Corralito, which is halfway to Ocozingo, a place we had no intention of visiting until at least midweek. It was beautiful and totally abandoned except for the caretakers who sold us lukewarm Coca-Cola after when we returned from a sweaty little hike.
When we asked, just for fun, how long it would take us to get back we were told it would take about 15 minutes…
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