Isla de Banos

... bezichtigen. We kozen voor de route van de watervallen, en dat was zeker een goede keuze. De uitzichten waren prachtig....

Tegen dat het donker werd kwamen we op het eindpunt aan. Om terug op het beginpunt te geraken betaalden we mensen met een pick-up oñ ons terug te brengen.
Voor de rest... een heel gezellige avond doorgebracht...

... trusting such equipment as you lean backwards off a cliff as a waterfall is streaming down 100ft....yep 100ft is where we will be repelling down IN A WATERFALL...along with that we also slid down a rock face.

Can you imagine waking up one morning and turning to each other to say 'Hey honey, let's jump off a waterfall backwards today''. I can't think of a better way to start off your morning .... better than coffee.
Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador destin8ion

... police could clear the prostesters and the burning tires off of the road. Once this was done it was just back on the road bobbing and weaving around large rocks and tree trunks, just another day on the road in Ecuador. From there I thought it would be clear sailing at least until we caught some traffice. Boy did we ever. While passing through a town so small that if you blinked you missed it, we ran into a barricade and an angry mob all the way ...

... begging followed by piercing screams, reminiscent of the time I threw a cat sized plastic spider on my sister, as she watched arachnophobia from behind the sofa. Lucy soon forgot about her itch, but no time to escape as our dear little fellow returned from his killing chamber with a twinkle in his eye that suggested we were next. Like all executioners though he delayed the inevitable, allowed us out of our steam prison ...

Hola! Dan and I are in Banos, world famous for the hot springs and outdoorsy adventures. Sorry ´we´ve been out of touch for a few days! We were at the Secret Garden in Cotopaxi (highest active volcano in the world according to my friend Phil) with our new found friends Lina, Phil, Andreas, Khristy, and Sean. The hostel can ...

... Boot hat sich irgendwie die Leine gelöst und das Boot ist abgetrieben. Das Kajak ist dann auch gleich hinterher, wir haben ihn aber nicht mehr wiedergesehen. Drei Leute wollten dann auch irgendwie nicht weiter und sind von dort zurück der Rest inzwischen 8 Personen sind dann in dem einen Boot weiter. Dann kamen noch einige heftige Stellen die wir alle ganz gut meisterten, manchmal wollte sich das Boot zwar aufstellen wir konnten aber durch geschickte ...

... on the seat was becoming incredibly uncomfortable. Still, there were some really fun and long downhill sections with some more nice waterfalls, though there were increasingly more uphill parts. My bike was a bit reluctant to change gear so actually having to pedal wasn't much fun. After an absolute soaking by more rain and a particularly nasty hill that we all just walked up, we decided to give up. We'd reached the small town of Mera, about 40km from Banos and we had all had ...