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Banos Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Banos, Ecuador
Getting Steamy!!
Well after our hike in the hills we thought a little rest and relaxation was in order. So we headed for Banos. A beautiful and bustling town that is deep in the heart of a valley and overlooked by the active volcano by which the town is on constant orange ...
Baņos, Ecuador
Greetings All After a ņot of slow conections its time to try again. After the night in the Hotel Canada in Rio Bamba we headed off for Baņos and found ourselves on the indirect bus. Never a problem as the buses run with such frequency it only take a ...
Baņos
Nach dem Jungel ging es zur Erholung nach Baņos, da gibt es aufgrund der immer noch aktiven Vulkane diverse heisse Termalquellen. Ich habe ein Bike gemietet und bin damit die Strasse der Wasserfälle entlang gefrahren, geendet hat die Tour beim ...
Quito to Jungle to Banos
... us and then Juan Carlos translated that it would wash off in about 8 days (we still have them now and are getting some funny looks in Banos). The native guy also showed us a plant one day, told us about it, hit us on our hands with it and then Juan ...
Arriving in Ecuador
Arrived in Ecuador last night. Long trip, as always, but fairly uneventful and punctual. Tatiana and Enrique were at the airport to greet me, with welcome balloon in hand. Her smile just fills your heart. Spent the night at Sol de Quito, which is the ...
Rapelling Down Waterfalls and Jumping Off Bridges
... (my kinda town). Itīs name, Baņos (Baths). How appropriate. Baņos is known as one of Ecuador's most enticing and popular tourist destinations....And of course our timing was impeccable as usual. Just in time for All Saints Day ...
Of Buses and Beaches
... were cobblestone, the buildings old, and each corner, it seemed, had a church and a bakery. First impressions of Ecuador had us realizing that there is something different about this country than the others we have visited thus far, although none ...
October - From Political Unrest to Pina Coladas
... end, It seemed like an exciting event to have experienced and reinforced that fact that things really do work differently in Ecuador. Luckily the airports opened up and things settled down in time for Jeremy's visit the following weekend! We ...
day 47: rafting
'Forward' our captain with the frog on his helmet shouted, and the 8 of us started paddelling like crazy. Mostly I liked the 'chicken position' when all the hope was gone and all we could do was hide inside the boat until we ...
Thought the vocano was active.... It`s not (shame)
Banos is a nice little village but only walked up tot he cross at the top of the hill really. And also went to the street party but it wasnīt great so got a bottle of wine and sat on the hostal roof drinking it with Stefan! ...
Last Day In Banos
... (more for mine than Melody's). Though there really has not been any mesquitos here in Banos, I think we had a tourist mesquitos decide to torment us with buzzing our ears for the last two nights...I think I got him ...
Camping in the Rain
... but very nice all the same. This stop marks the first of the camping on this trip and as pretty much always in Ecuador we have encountered considerable rain which made the first night under tents rather damp for some of our group!! Yesterday quite a few ...
Relaxing in Baņos
... springs. Baņos also boasts a multitude of waterfalls. Like San Gil in Colombia, Baņos is the adventure capital of Ecuador. Everything from biking and hiking to rafting and bungee jumping are offered but we decided to give those action packed activities ...
Hot Springs
... aanbeland in Baņos, een dorpje gelegen aan de voet van de vulkaan Tungurahua, en een van de meest toeristische plaatsen in Ecuador... Gisteren hebben we hier niet veel uitgestoken, in de de hete baden van īLas Piscinas de la Virgenīgelegen, terrasjes ...
weekend at the base of a live volcano
... a month later. I figured I would figure out the details as I went along. Right now I am in a small village in Ecuador called Banos. It is really a nice and exciting little place with lots of tourists. It is based at the bottom of a live volcano which ...
Banos - 6 month anniversary party!
28th September 2009 Well, after chalking up 6 months on the road, ive finally arrived somewhere in Ecuador where I can go a little silly and enjoy myself. Quito was cool but you had to be careful all the time, and the mountains, as pretty as they are, ...
Ecua-Pictures
Didn't get to blog directly from Ecuador, but here are some of our pictures. Started and ended in Quito staying at the Magic Bean. Drank the best moro margaritas ever here! Weaved through to Banos where we hiked and biked ...
A visit from the tooth fairy
Baņos is a top place, surrounded by rolling hills (i never really knew what they were until now) and thermal baths powered by the big active Volcano. There was an eruption just last year and the Volcano is actually so active you are meant to check the ...
End of Central and Start of South
Hola mis amigos! I am now in Banos, Ecuador where I am living with an Ecuadorian family for a week while I attend Spanish school (to hopefully learn some?). Back to Boquete- the hotsprings were nice, just little pools in the ground, nothing like what we ...
Don't Walk The Streets With Your Mouth Open!
... was quite interesting to be a part of. The main reason that we scheduled our trip to be in Banos at this time was because we were told that Ecuador's most important, and largest, Carnaval parade was in Amboto, only an hour away. On the day of the ...
Happy New Year
So after the party times on the beach and the huge price increase in the cost of a bed we headed inland to Banos, translates as bathroom in spanish, We took a day bus as it was the only way to go and arrived late at night in the rain Sophie, me ady and ...
Into the Oriente
... , including running across the ceiling of the dorm. It was a nice place with a good roof terrace. The town is famous in Ecuador for it's candy. All over the place you can see people making the stuff by hooking strands of gummy stuff onto the wall ...
Having fun being almost drowned!
zondag 13-03-2011 's Ochtends nadat we French toasts gemaakt hadden Julia en ik, vertrekken we richting Baņos. We komen 's avonds aan om 21u en moeten nog een hostal beginnen zoeken. Opnieuw treffen we het geluk en worden we aangesproken door een ...
Banos
... and the town below. The view was great and we could see all the surrounding areas, including Volcan Chimborazo, the highest mountain in Ecuador. We asked for directions while we were there, as we were planning on visiting a zoo that is at the bottom of ...
Biggest cycle of my life. 80KM into Amazonas
... once I arrive there. It was time to challenge myself. The goal: 62 kilometers from Banos to Puyo which lies in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Juank (Juan Carlos) works for Geotours http://www.geotoursbanios.com, an extreme sport company that ...
Un regalo para mi en Baños...
... overnight as I needed to arrive in time to catch an early am flight to San Cristobal on the Galápagos!! A bus journey in Ecuador wouldn't be the same without some sort of story to accompany it, and sure enough an hour into the journey in Ambato the ...
Michel's bungee jump!
... why people bungee jumped here because the land was so much full of rocks with hardly any water! Well, we were in Ecuador after all and I guess this was the way they did it here.....anywhere!!!! Rapidly, I walked right to the other ...