Tolantongo P-day

We drove 4 hours to get to the state of Hildago to a resort called Tolantongo.  The mountains were beautiful and at the bottom was a river.

 The river is warm and comes from the mountain which must have some thermal heat source.  It was nice to see families camping along the river and playing in it.  The group of private people who own the resort have done a pretty good job developing it.  They have laid down rock in the river to create pools and cascades of water.

There were tents everywhere.  You could rest there as well as use tables, chairs, air mattresses and blankets.  Lockers were also provided and lots of showers, restrooms and places to eat.  

This was a hotel.  There were also cottages.  I thought it was interesting that tents could be placed where ever it was convenient.  It was a Saturday and a lot of people were there.  So maybe this was overflow space on the ledge of the hotel.  Dennis said that if this wonder of nature were in the United States it would probably be a national park.  Either way a lot of people were enjoying it.  

The water was just running off the rocks and down the mountain in places where they had not channeled it.  This water fall had a pool built above for swimming and the water running down is excess run off.  

The water has a high mineral content and coats the pools and falls.

Lots of families were there the Saturday we went.  Nice to see.  

This was a picture before going into the cave in the background.  That cave was amazing.  Water was running off the mountain and through the cave and the tunnel into the cave.  It was a total immersion by hot water.  Not a dry spot on me anywhere.  

Some of the falls and pools looking up from the suspension bridge going across a deep ravine.  I thought the mountain in the background was interesting.  It looked like a volcanic mountain that had blown its top.  

There was also a warm pool for that looked inviting.  That is a diving platform at the top.

This tree was interesting with large pods growing on the trunk.  I wondered if it was a cacao pod that chocolate comes from.