As i said in my last post i went to Salto this last weekend....I jumped off the top of the waterfall and in my infinite wisdom forgot to plug my nose. Therefore, dirty, scary, Salto water was forced into my nasal passages. You are thinking Ouch, and that's true. But the real revenge came later that night when the beginning of a sinus infection started. Then again in my infinite wisdom Callie and I crashed at a friends house getting next to no sleep. I woke up the next morning with a pounding headache/faceache and a throat so sore i couldn't swallow. And thus began my most miserable week in Argentina yet. Sunday night was the worst, a fever set in and i spent the night shifting from freezing cold to burning hot, needless to say i hardly got any sleep that night either. As it just so happened my Folklore midterm was Monday so staying in bed was out of the question. I do feel a little guilty though because i went to class fever still in full swing....I am just waiting to hear one of the ACAs say they aren't feeling well. Patient zero once again. So Brittney and i went to the hospital yesterday and they gave us some meds and said if i am not getting to come back in three days. Well the meds help but its not really cutting it. So my hope is to get a good run in today and go to bed early and wake up tomorrow illness free....we shall see how that pans out.
In other news, Callie was talking to one of our friends and he said that there have been several mysterious deaths at Salto. Apparently a little while back a few guys were swimming and one got sucked under by....no one knows. Anyways they couldn't find the body so divers went in with sonar equitment to try to find the bottom of the swimming hole....well they couldn't find it. Salto lies on a falt line and the end cannot be found. Creepy. So needless to say i think i shall not be going back to Salto. Whether or not all that is true there is something a little off about Salto and besides i'm not about to sign up again for a 10mile hike through the middle of no where just to get a fever and a sinus infection. But hey makes for a decent story, right?
Is true. As a local i can say i knew about that. Stories of people that died there... The thing is that if you take good care (or jusr "care") nothing bad is gonna happend. If you jump right in front of the little fall is good. The water flowing constanly there makes that a "safe spot".... Anyways, some old fellow told me it is 40 mts deep (120 feet or so)... Yep, really deep.
ReplyDeleteBut the "dangerous part" is the same as everywhere you go... Everywhere is "dangerous". The trick lays in your attitude and your sense of carefullnes...
Anyways, sorry for not sharing that info before we took off to the salto... I didn`t want to scare anybody :)
It came out a good experience though...
Yikes! Sounds wise to find a different swimming spot. Hope you feel better soon!
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