What to expect
- Level
- Moderate — a steady two-hour walk with some climbing
- Duration
- About 2 hours on the trail
- Terrain
- Rainforest path to a waterfall, reached by dinghy
- What you'll see
- Waterfalls, wild deer, rainforest birds and plants
- Bring
- Closed shoes you don't mind getting wet, water
Leave the boat
Some days the best thing about a sailboat is stepping off it. We drop the dinghy, run for the mainland, and walk two hours up into rainforest — a wall of green, the noise of birds, a waterfall you can stand under, deer watching from the trees. After a week of islands and salt, the jungle lands like a different planet.
Two hours into another world
The trail starts where the dinghy does, at the tree line, and climbs into forest thick enough to drop the temperature ten degrees. You hear the waterfall before you see it. There’s deer in here — actual wild deer, unbothered, that lift their heads and watch you pass. No reef, no anchor, no horizon: just canopy, soil underfoot, and the kind of quiet the open sea never has. Then you turn around, walk back down to the dinghy, and you’re swimming off the back of the boat by lunch.
Why it belongs on a sailing trip
A week on the water is wide and bright and blue. The jungle is the opposite of all of it — close, dark, green, still. That contrast is the point. You come back aboard having seen two completely different worlds in one morning, and the boat feels like home for it.
