Abbey being attacked by a lion outside a restaurant

Baños - Our new favorite place

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April 12th 2011
This may be the only good internet connection that we will have for a long time, so I´m going to give you an extra blog to hold you over. Read it slowly and it will last longer. The schedule had us two days in Baños, then to Quito with a day trip to Pupillacta but after a half day here, we called HQ and switched it to three days here. Good call. We realized after walking around that our itin ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Centre » Baños

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more