5,000,000,000 stairs

3/25/22- Today we decided to make up for yesterdays bad weather and we made the drive back up the mountain where it was only a little bit foggy! We hiked down and out of the clouds where we could see the stunning rainforest surrounding us. The hike took us to what was described as 25 waterfalls, upon seeing it I would say it was more so 1 waterfall with 24 drips coming out of different sections of the wall... The entiree first half of the hike is downhill so we labored our way up a million stairs to find that we only had to go half way because a shuttle would drive us up to our car for the road section. That 5 minute shuttle makes all the difference in the world. After the first hike we drove over to a different mountain and started to drive up it. As we went the fog thickened to the point where we could only see 5 feet ahead of us!! It was so scary, there were so many curves on the road too so it was such a miracle we got up safely. This hike went up to the highest point in the island. It was only about 2 miles long but it was ALL uphill and was basically all stairs! The view is supposed to be amazing from the top but when we got up there the fog was so thick that all we could see what white :( We did meet some people from Poland though and we talked to them for a bit about the situation there. They said that it is completely safe but it is so strange seeig all the people immigrating in from Ukraine. After finding our way back down the mountain we drove over to another hike that had really cool views of the ocean. The ocean is so blue here, like not light blue that you see in the carribean but a really pretty shade of dark blue that is so stark! Our bodies were exhausted from the other two hikes we had already been on and the sun was almost gone so so about 1/3 of the way through this hike we decided to turn around. We returned to the famous indian restaurant (its called Sabor de Indian if you ever find yourself here and in want of a good dinner) and had another great meal.