Breathe in Experience...
Climbing to the top of Volcan Totumo, it looks like a small anthill. You can feel the energy as you get closer to the top, we had no idea what to expect. The mud here is known to have healing properties, they say you are reborn as you climb out of the womb of Mother Earth, fully cleansed by the spiritual mud-bath. According to local folklore, the volcano used to spew fire, lava, and ashes, but it was turned into mud by a local priest who believed it was the work of the devil, and ensued to banish him by sprinkling holy water into the top of the volcano. It was so crazy lowering into the warm slippery mud. As much as you try to bob down into it, you are so buoyant that you just pop up like a cork! You have to have somebody help you submerge your head by pushing you down by your shoulders. I have no idea how deep it goes, but trying to swim through it is like trying to move through a bowl of jell-o in slow motion. It was the total spa treatment, the men gave us full body massages, and after we were done, the women lead us down to the river where they dumped buckets of water over our heads like a birdie-bath, and striped our swimsuits off (to our surprise) to scrub us down and wash out our suits! We stayed for a while to float around in the mud and soak it all in, I have never felt so weightless. Days later, we are still cleaning the mud out of our ears... THIS was a once in a lifetime experience.
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