Semuc Champey is without a doubt the most beautiful location we have visited so far in Central America, even an overcast sky could not detract from its beauty. The word beautiful actually seems like a lame way of describing it - the place is a natural wonder and I have never heard or read about a similar phenomenon. The Rio Cahabon is a rushing gushing torrent of water, which thunders down from a picture perfect misty mountain valley covered in every shade of green imaginable. Then at Semuc Champey the river is suddenly gone, it disappears down through a hole deep, into darkness, into far inside the earth, into the underworld. My mouth gaped open in awe, almost dropping as wide as the subterranean tunnel entrance. We walked on, over where the river logically should be,
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