The Trip: Baños de Santa Agua

• 09 December 2009 at 19:22
• Traveling

Our stay in Baños was just amazing.

First of all, before going there, we went to La Libertad, where Luca and I could buy new cameras for hardly $140 each! Luca could also buy himself a guitar. On the bus to Baños, I think I had food poisoning and I had to retain myself for most of the travel, until we found a traffic jam and I could relieve ALL my sphincters. I only had 5 minutes to do that though.

Once in Baños, we rested and the day after, we started with renting cuadrones to check out the top of Tungurahua, the volcano over the city. Unfortunately, there were too many clouds, but we could still take very nice pictures anyway!

The day after, we went swing jumping. It-s some kind of bungee jumping except that you're supposed to flip around the bridge or something! The bridge was about 60 meters above the ground and the rope was about 30 meter-long (we are not sure, agencies were giving different information, going up to 100 meters, probably to get us). Peter's jump, perfect:

Ada's jump, clean:

My jump, fucked up:

Then we took bikes to do the road of the waterfalls but I hate biking so I took a bus to go home, while the others went on.

The day after, we quickly checked out the parade for the Baños festivities and we went out.

The following day, we went canyoning (sort of) and we did some canopy in the forest. Peter made a video of the canopy thing, 300 meters above the ground...

We kept going with rafting, with a crazy guy who enjoyed simulating accidents. It was fun:

That very night, we went to the karaoke. Luca sang Yesterday, I sang I Want To Break Free and we finished with a duet on You're Beautiful. We didn't meet great success but at least we tried. The thing is that Ecuadorians take karaoke very seriously.

The last day, we walked in the forest to see other waterfalls. They were quite disappointing, but the mosquitoes though, were totally not!

We went home in a camioneta full of young Ecuadorians with whom we sang, Luca on the guitar, it was very nice...

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