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Some more things for you guys to read! Baños After so much relaxing in Cotopaxi we decided that it was time to do something a bit more adventerous. Baños was the most logical choice. We didnt know much about the place except that everyone raved about how great it was. Driving to Baños we were treated to amazing views of deep valleys and mountains. Eventually the road slowly curved towardsa massive volcanoe. The snow covered peak, the rolling clouds slowly caressing everything around them was really impressive. What we didnt realise was that Baños was perched right under this volcanoe. Interenstingly enough, there were signs all over the city, pointing out an escape route encase it erupted, which it does quite frequently. Last time the volcanoe stirred was earlier this year. We stayed at an awesome hostel called Princessa Maria. It had big rooms, clean beds and amazing people working there (you know who you are). Ali and Rebecca decided to join us, so the 4 of us shared a room which happened to look out quite nicely over the daily market. What followed was 4 days of total glutteny. Our dinners were absolutely massive. A good example is when we decided to make pizza for dinner. In the morning we had made crepes, 26 to be exact, with all types of fruit and filling. Than for dinner we made 12 pizzas, loaded with all types of vegetables and chicken, between the 4 of us. Baños was als great because of the night life. Being a small town, there was one street with a few bars lined alongst it. While they were all pretty good bars we kept to the ´Good Bar´ because they had great drinks specials. From salsa, 90´s music to great dancing and drinking, we had a good couple of nights. We also ran into a guy from Belgium that we had met on the Loop. This guy was quite easy to recognise as he was about 7 feet, beared and with glasses. It was amazing when his dancing style turned out to be ´jump jump jump´, those ceilings must have been really high. Our time in Baños went by really quickly. We did quite a few of the adventure activities offered there. First day we went on a white water rafting trip. While it was amazing rafting down the massive river the highlight was definetely the little stop over. Everyone got out and carried the boat over boulders and rocks for 10 minutes to arrive at the banks of the next river. From there we went on foot into the jungle, into a militray base. Turns out our guide had friends there and we were allowed to see all the animals that the army had confiscated from traffickers. From snakes, jungles cats to small baby monkeys and a sloth, it was amazing seeing this little zoo in the middle of nowhere. We also ended up having lunch which we didnt realise was included in the price, so overall it was an amazing experience. The following day we rented bikes and headed out of town towards a massive waterfall 16km out of town. While on the way there we stopped to do some zip linning. Its amazing how easy it is to bargain for things when its the low season. From $15 a person, we got it for $15 for the both of us. While mine zip line was quick and breath taking, Anna got stuck half way and had to be pulled in by one of the guys. The zipline extended over a valley, flying over a river and a bunch of large rocks. The actual waterfall was absolutely beautiful. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. A massive torrent of fast moving water, that exploded as it hits the rocks below. We decided that we had to go behind it, and after crawling for 5 mintues through a snaking little hole, we were behind it! The roar, the ferocity, its hard to describe, hopefully the picture captures it to a degree. The next day was all about hiking. Anna and I spent the entire day trying to find a tree houses somewhere up on a mountain. After doing loops of the area, we finally found it but had to turn around because it was getting late. However, after talking to the guy that worked there, we found out that it was possible to camp there. We also found out that the volcanoe was acting up again as it had started spewing forth blue sulphur from the crater. When this happens, he informed us that loads of tourists come up for the night to pitch tents and watch eruptions at night. We decided that it would be a great idea to observe this phenomenon ourself. The next day we caught the bus up there and set up our tent. We were the only people there and though that atleast the guy looking after the place would stay behind, but he decided to leave at around 6pm. From that point onwards we were totally alone, a fire to cook our dinner, a massive volcanoe to our left and huge valleys in every other direction. It was a beautiful sight. What was meant to be a little stop over turned into the place that we´ve stayed the longest at so far. We had an amazing time hanging out with everyone. Cuenca After Banos we headed to Cuenca, which is Ecuador’s biggest southern city. We headed to a hostel that we had read about in Lonely Planet because it had a kitchen and was described as a “friendly family run place.” When we got there it was completely empty, since it is currently the off season for travel. But since we were already there, we decided to stay, even though the atmosphere wasn’t the best and the staff was a little cold. It left us not too excited about Cuenca because we had no one to talk to at our hostel, and probably because of this, we only ended up spending two nights in Cuenca. We spent our one day there going to a very nice museum about the various native cultures of Ecuador, which had a really cool collection of shrunken heads. When we weren’t at the museum, we discovered that Cuenca was famous for its ice cream shops, which served real ice cream instead of the cup-shaped homemade ice cream that we found everywhere else in Ecuador. So we indulged in that while wandering around Cuenca’s beautiful old district (nicer than Quito’s, we decided). Overall, Cuenca was just a brief uneventful stop, so uneventful, in fact, that Val keeps forgetting that we even went there. Vilcabamba After spending so much time in Banos, we were itching to get out of Ecuador and onto Peru. But we had heard really good things about the little pueblo of Vilcabamba, so we decided to make that our last stop in Ecuador. We wanted to camp, so (once again) we ended up staying at a place that was a ways out of town. It was supposed to be a 12 minute walk from town, but ended up being about a 25 minute walk from town, which was a bit of a challenge with our enormous packs. But we made it and it was a nice enough place. We just spent two nights in Vilcabamba, because it was nice, but there was not much to do. We spent one day exploring the town, which only took about an hour because it was tiny. We went to a little zoo, and hung out in the plaza, and caught up one some internet necessities. Vilcabamba was a funny place because it was full of expats. There were tons of white hippy families who had settled there amongst the very old Ecuadorians. (Vilcabamba is located in a valley nicknamed the “valley of longetevity” because its inhabitants are famous for living for a very long time.) Our second day in Vilcabamba we hiked to a waterfall with some friends that we met at our camp site, and then hopped on a night bus headed to Peru. On to country number three!
