Mexico - Agua Azul Cascade
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Agua Azul is a long series of glittering cascades coursing over kilometers of lush valleys in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas Mountains. The powerful, shimmering falls, white water and deep, clear pools, rush through steaming jungle about 50km from the town of Palenque. With sparkling turquoise water set against a deep green jungle background, the falls are probably one of the most spectacular natural attractions in Mexico. They are beautiful to look at and, I was to learn, treacherous in places. When the group I toured with arrived, I read a sign close by warning of the dangers. In several places along the banks were commemorative crosses for ones that had drowned in this Dangerous Beauty.