ON THE EDGE OF BRAZIL'S ENORMOUS WATERFALL CACHOEIRA DA FUMAÇA IN CHAPADA DIAMANTINA, BRAZIL
by the time it gets to the bottom and it looks like it just turns into smoke there are a ton of natural pools forming good morning from a tree house we spent last night here and we gave you a tour in the last video so if you didn't get to see that make sure you watch the last video because this place is awesome the name of this place is linda's doc we got to stay in the treehouse which was amazing they don't just have a tree house here they have a bunch of other rooms so we're gonna go stay in one of those for tonight yeah unfortunately this one was occupied another day we thought we could stay here longer but uh we're gonna have to move to another one after we move to our new place which seems pretty nice we're gonna have breakfast and then we're gonna go on a hike goodbye jackfruit growing inside of our room we're gonna miss this room one of the most unique places we've ever stayed look at all these branches coming out this might be the one and only time in our whole life that we stay in a tree house so it's kind of sad to leave it's been good this is the way down from the tree it's not a ladder or a rope like you might expect one last view from the outside see lindsay up there she doesn't want to leave all right fine i'll leave so this is their breakfast area which is gorgeous it lets in a ton of natural light you can see all the plants surrounding us we're hungry we just sat down and already we have the beginning of our breakfast we have papaya so one of the seeds coming out here uh a melon and then this is dried banana looks good and then we have a lot more coming now what is this might be strawberry watermelon juice watermelon juice it's always good now we just need coffee second plate just arrived gotta try this looks like a quiche fried egg cheese and meat chocolate muffin and then i don't know what this is i'll try this first it's very dry and airy maybe it's like a tapioca muffin okay we just finished our breakfast now we're gonna go to our new room we'll show you that before we go on our hike new room wow pretty good it's huge first thing i'm noticing we get a jacuzzi tub and a shower wow look at this countertop keeping the tree house theme going there's a window from the bathroom to the other part of the room so it looks like this would be probably one of the more deluxe rooms a whole family could fit in here two twin beds looks like a king-sized a big tv chairs like a living room space and there's a patio out here a little bit of luxury after the tree house weren't expecting this at all now we're going to get ready for our hike which is probably the most famous hike in this area do you know what it's called nope i do the hiker going on today is cochera de fumasa let's go once again maps has failed us so we had to ask some ladies on the side of the road for directions to this place we asked some other people and they had no idea somehow this is like the most famous attraction in this area but maybe they just didn't understand our accent i don't know i think i said it pretty clearly but yeah they didn't know so we asked some other people they said it's close right up here to the right so but maps is not taking us over here so it's interesting maps took us to a place where nobody goes again what we've learned kind of works is we just keep asking people for directions as we go closer and closer and hope that it works out okay we found it you park here for ten rael estos it's the only minto that means parking lot however you say it there's only one other car here this barely looks like a parking lot we had to register our names and where we're staying and write it down for them but we didn't have to pay anything and they recommend a guide but it's not required they say it should take about five hours round trip it is six kilometers total the first part is all uphill apparently it flattens out after the first part of the uphill so yesterday we kind of took a day off i believe i got food poisoning so i've been pretty weak stomach really not feeling good at all i'm very weak and all i want to do is sleep but we only have one day left here so this is our only day to do this hike but we're gonna make it happen luckily it's not as hot in this region as it is on the coast i would guess it's probably around 65 to 70 degrees right now a little cloudy so that's good for this hike hey we've been hiking for probably 10 or 15 minutes and this is our first little outcrop where we can see the beginnings of the view there's a beaut way over there some mountains vast open space starting to look pretty beautiful we heard that on a portion of this hike we might have to kind of swim through water because it's the rainy season but it still feels really dry and it hasn't been raining much so hopefully we don't have to but we brought flip-flops just in case it's pretty cool that's a real adventure now comes the very steep ascent we have like a staircase of rocks here so not too bad but it is steep so it takes your breath away every couple minutes need a little bit of a break so we finally reached the flat part alex is a trooper he came on this hike with me even though he doesn't feel well but we both really wanted to see this and we think it's going to be worth it it's supposed to be one of the biggest waterfalls in brazil something else that makes it unique is part of the year like during the dry season sometimes the water doesn't reach the bottom it kind of evaporates by the time it gets to the bottom and it looks like it just turns into smoke and i think that's maybe where this gets its name so people told us that you need a guide because sometimes you might not know where to go and it can be dangerous but so far it's been fairly straightforward besides one part where you could take a look to the right take a look to the left and then we saw a bridge so it's been easy so far and now this seems pretty obvious so we're glad to have things like this letting us know we're on the right path right over the water glad we don't have to walk through that this is like a red orange water i think the copper makes up that color we've been hiking for a good hour i think over an hour at this point and this is all we see we don't know exactly where we're going we've seen a few people walking by so that's always a good sign that means we're on the right track even without a guide okay so it looks like we have reached some water this is what we were telling you about earlier this is what we've heard about at some points of the year you have to go through some water to get to the other side and we see a little bit here i don't know if we have to take off our shoes to get through or what some people told us that during that really rainy season it can go up to your waist so like right here but this doesn't look that bad yet the color of that water so so the terrain on this hike really changed towards the end of this it's like there are a ton of natural pools forming that are this orange color and we think it's from the copper deposits in the water that looks almost black and then right here it's like a bright orange so accidentally we found this really cool orange and red pond here and people have started even swimming in here do so we just met a local who told us that we can actually go along these rocks in this red river here and that will lead directly to the waterfall we thought that we would go around this way which is also a way you can go but they said this might be a more beautiful way to go at the end of it you'll be like at the waterfall look it over so usually there's a lot of water down the waterfall cascading down making the beautiful pictures you might see but now in december it's pretty dry so we're not going to see that much at least that's what they told us so it's more of the smoky look where only a little bit of the water is going down and evaporating should make it easier to get to than through the water how do we do this well we finally made it this is the edge we are very high up here so i know we just said that a local told us we could walk through those rocks and see right over the waterfall but even though there's not that much water we are too scared to do that we've heard one too many horror stories about waterfalls so it's just not worth the risk so we're gonna take in the view from up here we are so high up i didn't realize it was gonna be this high beautiful landscape so we're sitting at the top of this thing on the edge and it is an epic view as you can see from this wow you can see over here there are people leaning over the edge and taking pictures doing different acrobatics and things for their pictures we haven't really done that but we have the drone so we got our own look at people trying to inch a little bit closer a little bit closer so this waterfall is one of the tallest in brazil and even in south america it has a 400 meter free fall going down crazy it's hard to even see the bottom that is huge so here a little different perspective a lot of people are gonna be up there getting a view of the waterfall or over there getting a different view of the waterfall but here you can get the very top this is right before the edge you can't even really tell you could probably walk right over and not even know but that is the edge where you'll see it goes down 400 meters we've been on our way back for probably 40 minutes longer or longer lindsay says longer probably about an hour this is our first shade we just basically we've just basically been walking through a desert for a while and it is hot that's what makes this hike tough not not anything else not gonna lie this is not the most enjoyable hike the view was cool but this part is just so hot and we even tried to leave early in the day we would not recommend starting the hike at like 11 or noon we started at 10 and it's still super hot coming back down when we get back down we're gonna get some acai and juice and water and jackfruit pastel so i don't know if you guys can relate but a lot of times it seems like hikes on the way back feel a lot longer than on the way there this hike seems never ending i'm trying to cover myself from the sun so i don't get burnt anything you want to say alex no he's having a blast too much energy we are so exhausted we're almost too tired to film right now it's been two hours and we can finally see the building where we started oh my goodness and we're not like in that bad a shape we saw some people as we're nearing the end going up they're crazy if they knew english i was gonna say you might want not want to do that because it's uh it's that hot where it's not going to be enjoyable to go up we don't envy them right now we're glad to be done time to get some refreshments we finally got it wow this is well deserved massage is already good but when you're parched and tired and dehydrated it tastes even better and this is a good kind too this is gonna replace all the electrolytes and the vitamins and minerals that we lost through our sweat all day all gone i'm savoring mine slowly one thing that we found really interesting is that the starter leg you have to register put your name on a piece of paper and the time that you are starting the hike and then when you come back down you go to the same building and you have to check out what time you came back which we're not really used to seeing that i've never been on a hike that does that but it kind of makes sense because this hike isn't maybe the most safe because of the huge drop off by the waterfall but even then in the u.s there's a lot of unsafe hikes and no one would even know if you never came back i'm taking over the talking because alex is too tired and he's enjoying his last fight that's his contribution to the video all right we've had a great day we are going to end this vlog here and we will see you tomorrow we are going to be touring the town of valley doka and then we're going to be taking a road trip to our next destination any last words i know we already ended the video but we wanted to show you this pool really quick because it's beautiful we're about to see the sunset perfect way to end a long exhausting day just getting in this pool and chilling out having some juices oh our juices are actually coming right now we got a a guava and a strawberry oh here they come here um or strawberry juice great way to end the day we needed this so as you guys know we post on youtube as much as we can but we also have little video clips and photos that we can't post on youtube so if you want to see more follow us on instagram lindsay travel bum and alexander travel bar see you there hey guys thanks for watching this video if you want to see more videos like this one click one of these and subscribe right here because we're traveling all around the world and we're sharing the whole thing with you see you in the next one
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