While in Pohnpei we went on a crazy, but really fun adventure that had us riding in lawn chairs in the back of a truck and hiking through the jungle up and swimming through eel-infested waters!  The pictures below depict the 6 waterfall hike we went on while staying at The Village in Pohnpei.

Here we are sitting in the back of the truck.  We are on plastic lawn chairs with the bottom half of the legs cut off.  Just sitting in the back of the truck.  Pretty sure there are laws against that in the US!  They picked us up in the morning to drive us to the other side of the island!

Mindi's face says it all as we were literally hanging on the sides as we raced down the roads and around the corners.  We didn't fall out though, so we'll count it as part of the fun.

Here are the chairs we were sitting in and example of the road we were driving on in the background!  We were sliding around in the back of this truck!  

We rode in the truck for nearly and hour and stopped to have our driver head off into the jungle to find our guide.  He was gone for about 5 minutes and came back followed by the guy above in the picture, who you see here leading us into the jungle during the start of the hike.  He was wearing flip flops as we climbed some seriously steep stuff and looked like a shorter version of rambo.  He carried a machete the whole time to cut the path through the jungle. In many places, the trail was created as we walked on it and he cut through the brush.  

Here is a picture showing the trail.  Or lack there of.  Literally we were tromping through and in the jungle.  in many places the trail was us walking through the stream that cut through the hills because there was no where else to walk.  As you can see in the picture above the hike and trails are as natural as it can get!  We hadn't really been in a tropical rain forest before and it was awesome going through this one.  It is very different than  the Amazon, because there were virtually no bugs out during the day to attack us and temperatures were pretty pleseant!  We still don't know how that guy managed this hike in flip flops, but he said he could do it with his eyes closed since he has been guiding these hikes for a long time several times a week.

Here is us in front of the first waterfall!  It was probably 40 feet high or so I would guess and was very beautiful!

The second was the largest and we swam into it and up to the falls.  We didn't let the eel swimming with us scare us off! haha

Here we are in front of the third waterfall, which emptied into this stream and was breathtaking.  The pictures hardly do it justice, but it was really neat after hiking through the jungle to be in front of these waterfalls.  Parts of Pohnpei get around 400 inches of rain a year, so there is plenty of water to fall!

We had lunch right here in front of the 4th waterfall on the rock we are taking this picture on.  It was a nice break from the hike and a great place to stop and eat!

Here we are for falls number 5.  They were all a bit different and beautiful in their own way for sure!  We definitely counted this as one of the most fun parts of our vacation!

We had to swim through a miniature canyon to get to the 6th and last falls, which is off in the distance.  They said that if you kept going you find more and more falls as you followed the stream up, but this one fell from a cliff and there was no way to get up it or further from here as the trail ended here and we headed back!  This one was really neat as well!

This waterfall was not a part of the hike, but was probably the most spectacular.  We saw this when we went on the Nan Madol tour a few days later.  It was probably 50 or 60 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base.  Seeing these were a lot of fun for sure!!!