Hierve el Agua translates to “the water boils”. It’s a petrified waterfall a little over an hour’s drive from Oaxaca. Leena’s telling me these things and I’m trying to wrap my brain around what this could be. We learn that it’s lime water that bubbles to the surface (hence the “boils” part, though the water isn’t hot), then calcifies as it runs off. And it just happens to boil up along a cliff’s edge. With enough time and volume, the calcified tracks look like a petrified waterfall.
The main pool is like an infinity pool. We arrived early and it was breezy and cool, but by the time we left around mid-day, people were soaking in the pool.
A look back at the “infinity” edge of the main pool.
There are two major petrified waterfalls. This is a look from the edge of one over to the other.
Another pool.
We spotted a few brave souls hiking out to an extra spire just beyond the first “waterfall”.
I made the hike.
Then I contemplated how big a drop it was.
A shot from my spire across the front of the first waterfall with the second in the background.
There’s Leena back at the top of the first waterfall.
We hiked over to the second waterfall. A look back at the first.
From the top of the second waterfall.
There was a trail around the back of the second waterfall down to its base.
Some detail of the calcified rock formations.
One more infinity pool effect.
