Cajas is so intensely beautiful you can actually feel it breathing. The Earth gives for your feet as you walk across it, like a sponge or one of those gymnasium floors; so unreal and magical that it truly did feel like (and I am going to fully embrace the cliche here because it is just too accurate) Heaven on Earth. Here´s another just to make you jealous of me:
Isn´t that a pretty laguna? How about another...just for the fun of it...
You get the idea, I suppose. But what you can´t see in the photos is the energy that radiates from far underneath the ground to the top of each mountain peak and completely engulfs you. It feels noisy. Yes, there is the occasional bird call, but that´s not what I mean. I mean the energy is noisy. You cannot help feeling connected to nature, the Earth, to your spiritual being (no matter how dormant it may be)...by stepping off the asphalt of the highway and into the mud of Cajas you are connected. And this I actually mean literally. At one point I had to grab my left thigh with both hands and pull very hard to get my foot out of the sticky grip of the mud.
Though you may have gathered by now, this was my favorite part of being in Ecuador so far and it´s really no question as to why. The simplest way I can put it (because as with many natural sites like this one that cannot be described fully with pictures or words), is to say this: Never in my life, never have I wanted so desperately to continue wandering around after 4 or 5 hours of hiking. Never. Ask my mom.
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