People often ask me about the 'most beautiful places' I've been. Semuc Champey rivals anything I've seen before, and unfortunately, my pictures don't do it justice.

A river shoots down from the mountains, narrowing, and coming to a raging point at the top end of Semuc Champey - a cave - where it is swallowed in a thunderous and violent gulp.

As the river passes underneath, runoff seeps into a series of turqouis pools that slide like giant stair steps down the valley. Each pool has just a small amount of forward flow, rolling over 3 foot long edges down to the next pool. The water is clear and fresh, and we swam till the sun disappeared behind the mountain.








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