http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Ecuador , Centre , Baņos en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:05:54 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:05:54 +0000 The past month has been relaxing but you wonrsquot believe it when I tell you all Irsquove done Most days Shana and I play 24 hours of Scrabble I go up to the hot baths 3x a week I read at least an hour a day and cuddle up with Maxi the dog and Chia the kitty to watch TV or a movie for a couple of hours daily. As always I am transfixed by the beautiful volcano which I can admire righ http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-461884.html Dec 17 Equador Banos Zoo Overnight Bus to Vilcabamba After such an exciting day previously with all that bike riding and waterfalls we thought we'd go for something a little more easy like going to see the local zoo. I always feel a little wierd going to zoo's as all the animals look a little unhappy which is to be expected but it is amazing to see some of the animals for real which you http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-461042.html Dec 15 Banos So we started the day at 8.30am had some breaky and headed for the bike shop. We hired 3 mountain bikes and started riding to the various Cascadas waterfalls. First stopped at Cascada de Agoyan which was just before we went through a tunnel which I rode into Alice and nearly fell off. They said that most accidents happen in the tunnel as its black but I reckon its before as http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-460706.html 12.12.2009extraando...Ende des Praktikums und auch die Haelfte meiner Zeit in Suedamerika ist nun vorbei.Ich bin in Baos bereits das dritte Mal auf der Durchreise zum Chimborazo. In einer Woche werde ich nochmal zwei Tage in Tena verbringen da ich dort auf einer Hochzeit eingeladen bin. Ich freue mich sehr darauf nicht nur weil eine traditionelle KichwaHochzeit mitzuerleben bestimmt ein s http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-459961.html Dsole de ne pas mettre jour mon blog chaque fois que j'aurai pu avoir internet on avait pas d'lectricit. C'est trs frquent en Equateur qu'il n'y ait pas de courant pendant la journe parait que c'est parqu'il n'a pas plu assez et que les centrales marchent au ralenti..Alors je reprends l o j'en tait.. De Cotopaxi notre hotel nous a organis une jeep pour rejoindre la ville la plus http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-457837.html So after Huanchaco we take the night bus which lasted 9 hours to Mancora Its a very touristy town with pretty beach lots of kitesurfers and a few surfers. Lots of bars and Restaurants which kept us awake for near on 3 nights solid so moved to a more quiet part of town to get some sleep Not that much to do accept laze away the days on the beach. After 5 nights in Mancora we decided to head to Ec http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-456943.html Baos 14.11.20091630Meine letzten Tagebucheintraege berichten von viel Beschwerlichem aber es war auf keinen Fall meine Absicht ein negatives Bild von Ecuador zu zeichnen In Wirklichkeit habe ich mich laengst in dieses kleine bunte Land verliebt. Dabei habe ich erst einen Bruchteil davon gesehen doch bereits jetzt bin ich zutiefst beeindruckt von der Vielgestaltigkeit sei es auf die Landsch http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-453229.html We are in Banos now after a very long day yesterday getting here from Puerto Lopez almost 13 hours on three different buses. We arrived after midnight last night found a hostel and awoke this morning to towering mountains and a clean friendly beautiful town. A little back log of the trip thus far to catch you up We left Lima Peru after a few days in Miraflores. We met a Frenchmen there who http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-452727.html JEcuador is so named because it's on the equator. So to see if water really does flush down toilets in alternate directions in each hemisphere we headed up to Mitad del Mundo 'Half the World'. We've already burned through about a third of our budget for the entire trip in Quito and the Galapagos Islands so to keep costs down we went on a couple of buses to travel the 22km to the Mitad del Mu http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-450246.html Leider klappt es wirklich nicht mit den Bildlis.Das kommt dann spaeter. Was hab ich noch vergessen zu schreiben vor meiner JungleTour hab ich noch fuer 3 Stunden einen Quad gemietet. Wow das war toll. 3 Stunden Offroad Schlamm Kies Wasser. Ich war ganz schoen verschmutzt. Richtiger Cross. Und mit einem Quad der Power hat Um die Kurven rumgeschlaeudert und so...hihi. Das war mal eine gut I http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-446376.html Best accompanied by singing Aweemaweh aweemaweh aweemaweh aweemaweh.The new must have item for your Bucket List is... le Jungle Trek. No visit to Ecuador can be complete without it. In fact President Correa just signed a law decreeing that if you don't go on a Jungle Trek while you're in the country theyll stamp your passport WUSS on the way out. No wusses we. On to the jun http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-444457.html Ich hab es sattGestern hab ich wieder einmal einen tag gefastet. Ecuador mit deinem gruenen herz denen nebeligen kuesten und spitzen bergen du bist verflucht. ich will wieder mal was essen ohne danach einige tage infektionen zu haben. aber ich bin jetzt durch damit. offiziel. habe gestern das erste mal auf dieser reise richtigen durchfall gehabt. aber richtig richtig. dann hab ich ein antibio http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-443566.html Baos mein Flucht und Erholungsort nach dem kalten und ungesunden Montaita.Ich bin schon ueber eine Woche hier und irgendwie ist es verhext.Nach der Busfahrnacht bin ich um ca. 6 Uhr in Baos angekommen. Da hab ich mich echt nicht gut gefuehlt. Scheissnachtbusfahrten. Dann hab ich einige Tage relaxt versucht mich meinem eigentlichen Ziel in Baos zu naehern Anmeldung fuer die Uni abschicken. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-443083.html Baos is Ecuador's ldquoadventure centralrdquo and part of that adventure is due to its location location location. The famed town is cuddled on the lap of a 16480foot volcano called Tungurahua. This Ecuadorian bad boy has been spilling his fiery guts off and on for hundreds of years but mdash like an exhausted giant Tungurahua is napping peacefully mdash for now anyway. Dormiando http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-442777.html Joa Montaita hat es auch geschafft den Rang eines Fin de Simons an einem Fin de Semana zu erreichen.D aber war sehr divertido. Gesurft bin ich nicht mehr und auch meine Unianmeldung musste sich bisschen zurueckziehen. Aber ich war auf den Galapagos des Armen Mannes was ich ja zwar nicht bin D. Ist ganz schoen dort auch wenn man vorher nicht geschlafen hat. Etwas viele dieser Voegel mit de http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-442440.html Having a great time here in Baos Ecuador continues to amaze us. We arrived in Baos with a very different scene before us. As we headed east after heading south through the Andes we began to see the landscape change it went from dusty and dry to green and tropical as the altitude dropped down to 1800m and continues to drop further if you pass Baos before arriving at the Amazon. The number of E http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-439222.html Our next stop was Baos which translates as baths referring to the numerous thermal baths in the town to which Ecuadorians flock at weekends. On our first morning we bumped into some friends and joined them for what we expected to be a short hike a mere 600 steps up to the Sacred Virgin viewpoint. Three hours later after a near vertical ascent clinging onto vines up a muddy path and numer http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-434173.html Hey hey hey peps hope you are wellOK so the last 4 days in short kind ofSo I am almost a week into my trip and have already done and seen soooooo much I have to admit I have been a little slack with writing a journal and so I will give you a basic overview of my adventures so far I have stayed in wood cabins with cockroaches and frogs rock climbed with bats quad biked in the dark an http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-433389.html well for somereason only half of y entry got published yesterday so heres the continuation........pass you and laughbecuase its a ridiculous thing to be doing in the heatCanyoning was really really fun. After a 45 min trek up a mountainside in wetsuits that stop your knees or hips from bending with houses that look impossibly perched there and you wonder whether the owners ever go down to ba http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-433046.html Well after a horrible night bus journey after a mind numbingly boring wait in Lago Agrio. we arrived in Banos. The bus seats recline but by doing so one uses up all the leg room...and they are deinitely not gringa sizedIts pretty impossible to sleep especially as they filled the aisle with people on stools who seemed to use the bus as a hop on and off service. However I was just drowsing off w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-432820.html