Landed on a tropical island: Smurfs at the waterfall, you have to keep an eye out for it

Els van Wijlen is currently staying with her husband 'de Kuuk' on Koh Phangan. Her son Robin has opened a coffee cafe on the island.

Another waterfall today.

I got a tip from a guest from the cafe that there is a waterfall where very few tourists go. There is a large and deep pool, where you can just swim and there is a rock to jump from. He said it is very beautiful and has a special atmosphere. Apart from Thai children, spiritual people also sometimes go there.

Oh, interesting, but that doesn't matter to me, I'm not that difficult.

Besides, I just read a spiritual book. The writer also liked to go to a waterfall because of the special energy that is present there. During her meditation she saw all kinds of things there, energy bubbles and entities bobbing up and down. In my experience a kind of flying smurfs, so to speak.

I read the book with amazement, how I would like to experience that once. I have no idea how I can do that, I still have to learn how to meditate and I'm afraid I'm way too sober.

The waterfall always does me very good. It is wonderful to sit very quietly and enjoy the sounds of the jungle. Once there was a bright red dragonfly that kept hovering around me. I had never seen one like this. But I was able to photograph it, so that was a real one.

I decide to have more of an eye for special things and I will start with that today.

I'm just going to sit very still for a long time at that spiritual waterfall. Then I do my best right?
Maybe today I will experience that special energy or swaying entities and I will also get my money's worth spiritually

I'm open to everything.

So I set off, in shorts on the motorbike towards the big mountain. The waterfall is neatly marked and in front of me is a couple who also go there. They're not making much progress anyway, I have to adjust my pace, otherwise I'll be on their heels. The fact that they stop every 10 meters to kiss doesn't really help either.
I have that again…..and climbing too slowly is also not possible, because a couple is already walking behind me.

Well, that guy in the cafe had to say that it's not busy here.... of course, that meditation doesn't work out when it's so busy. There goes my spiritual afternoon.

Anyway, in the end we almost all arrive at the swimming pool at the same time.
It is actually impossible to walk further, because the path is rather narrow and I cannot pass my predecessors. I stop and think about what to do.
You know what, I'll take off my shoes and sit down and take a bath.
The water is wonderfully cool and soft.
I close my eyes and I doze off for a while.

The excited chatter of the others suddenly makes me realize that I'm not alone.
When I look up I see 2 meters away, that's pretty close...that couple in front of me suddenly take off all their clothes.
She quickly dives into the water. He delays.
When I look at him, I suddenly have to think of heaving entities and I think I experience energy bubbles, because it makes me warm.

Behind me, the other couple is also naked.
After some running back and forth, they also jump into the water.

I pretend that it's the most normal thing in the world that I'm paddling in my shorts between 4 naked people here.
Then I call it a day, I quickly put on my sneakers and grease them.

It's a bit too spiritual for me this waterfall.