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Published: November 30th 2010
After another tedious ecuadorian bus journey we arrived in Baños. This one was especially tedious due to the number of salesmen that jumped onto the bus at various intervals to sell us wonder products to changes our lives, such as breath mints and tea bags!?!? Tea bags, Really? Can´t they see we´re English?
Baños is a little town in a beautiful setting. Everywhere you look are rolling green hills and, much like the English city of Bath, Baños is visited for its Baños (baths). Although you can actually bathe in these ones. So on our first day after taking a ´healing´ bath and visiting the small waterfall we felt very smug that we had ´done´Baños in just one day. Then we got talking to a fellow traveller... It turns out Baños is famous for the MANY waterfalls in the vicinity. We had been wondering what all the fuss was about on seeing the dribble of a waterfall we had visited earlier that day but we just figured not everyone had visited Iguazu! Put firmly in our place we set out the next day in search of these falls. We hired a dirt buggy and took the Ruta de las Cascadas
and apart from the small hiccup of failing breaks (fortunately a lot less scary that it sounds), we had a great time visiting the five waterfalls along the road. The highlight for us both was the last waterfall which you could actually walk behind! We got soakced but didn´t care, it was worth it!
So.. wet and soggy we boarded what would be our final ecuadorian bus to the capital Quito.
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La Cascada de la Virgen 
roopa
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banos!
isnt banos 'toilet'?! we used the word all the time in SA, we even say it here! Those waterfalls are lovely, anish jels of the top gear pic! xx