Isla de Banos
Thomas Halflants y Montalvo Banos, Ecuador
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Wasser, Wasser, Wasser
Geweckt werden wir pünktlich 7:30 Uhr vom Sportunterricht der nebenan liegenden Schule. Die Kidies in den Schuluniformen werden alle in Reih und Glied aufgestellt und dann wird eine Art Appell abgehalten. Erinnert bißl an die Zeiten bei Erich...
Banos de Aqua Santa (Bäder des heiligen Wassers) ist eine kleine Stadt mit ca. 18000 …
Banos
18th to 21st May 2008 An early rise on Sun, 18th so that I could get a ticket for the train ride down the famous Nariz del Diablo (Devil's Nose) track. The train left around 8pm and I travelled on the roof of the train down the side of the hills. When we arrived at the bottom of the track, we swapped places with the people who were inside and then …
Those roads...again
Next morning I had a slow breakfast, I knew Banos wasn't to far so I
wondered what Equador would throw at me. I must have asked 10 people
for directions and I was getting different storys, finally I saw a
sign that said Banos, 40k’s, yes I thouigh, on my way. The road
started off good, after 30 k’s past a town it …
Baños - activity town
As always the process of catching a bus in South America is incredibly easy. That said, it is coupled with a dose of paranoia watching your rucksack enter the luggage compartment and hoping you will see it again. The 3.5 hour journey cost us $3.50 and the journey was eventless save Cameron befriending a local man and 2 small children. Our bus …
Extreme Ecuador - the third instalment
SORRY FOR THE LACK OF PHOTOS WITH THIS BLOG - THEY´RE LOCKED IN A MEMORY STICK THAT WE CAN´T ACCESS - aaaagggghhh..... we left Cuenca on the bus, and got most of the way to Banos but ended up having to get a cab for the last hour and a half for US$20 as it was 12,30am. Our driver then couldn't find the hostel, and no one in Banos seemed to know …


