For the last two past years I’ve always wanted to go and visit Mexico during fall, however summer injuries have forced me to stay home and recover for the spring. Finally I could kinda made it this year, but was definitely bummed my bro couldn’t make it with me this time to show me around as after two years they say he’s a legend over there!
Tlapacoyan
So last October I packed all my stuff and took a plane to Mexico, having quite a few problems and more layovers that desired (4), I finally arrived in Mexico after a couple of days of traveling without my boat. I took a bus straight to Tlapacoyan, one of the coolest towns I’ve been in the middle of the jungle of Veracruz.
Tlapacoyan’s church
Sunrise from Aventurec’s terrace
Even though I didn’t have my boat for the first week I was lucky enough to borrow from friends and go kayaking everyday. We were staying in Aventurec, a super nice resort in the middle of paradise. Great food, orange trees everywhere, tidy gardens and super nice people make Aventurec the perfect place to stay. So everyday we would go paddle one of the many great runs that Alseseca and the Jalacingo have to offer. We started running the second half of Big Banana from Silencio as the drive, shuttle and hike in were a lot easier, and I think that’s become the classic run now. Super nice start with Silencio, and then plenty of other cool rapids down to Tomata bridge. Short run, so you can lap it no problem.
Silencio
The Tomatas, one and two are just downstream of the take out, so you can keep on going, ran both of them and then paddled the Tomnata gorge aka the Seven Sisters/Siete Hermanas; as the name says, seven consecutive different style drops. Super nice section, and if you don’t feel like T2 you can rappel into the pool which looks sick!
 Dirty Sanchez
The upper Jalacingo offers some great bed rock slides and rapids, however there’s a bit of wood now so gotta walk some too! The lower is super clean and nice, offering three major drops; Twisted Pleasure, Dirty Sanchez and Dungeon, but the stuff at the start and mostly in between is just amazing, plenty of little boofs and continuous white water makes it one of the best sections around. Last is a massive portage known as the Black Hole, definitely not runnable!
Twisted Pleasure
After about three weeks of boating I was lucky to have paddled most of the sections at least twice, however there’s still some stuff that I’m missing… gotta go back sometime!
Overall, a great trip to one of the best destinations in the world, tropical frute everywhere, cheap food/life, great culture, nice people and good times!
Viva México wey!
Pics by: Tait Trautman and Jeff
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