This weekend I hiked to the largest waterfall I’ve seen in my life. It is in the reserve, and the hike there requires passing coffee farms, abandoned gypsum and gold mines, and splashing from one side of the river to the other more times than I could count. It was a beautiful hike, and amazing to see the mining tunnels built over 70 years ago.
A few years ago residents of this area organized a protest that stopped international traffic on the highway. It was to prohibit a Canadian silver-mining company from entering the reserve, while the president of Honduras had given the go ahead. This is pretty amazing, and shows the power and the will of the people in this zone.
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