We arrived in Baños on the 3rd of July in the middle of the night at a hostel called Plantas Y Blanco in this very touristy town in the northern foothills of the Tungurahua Volcano. Whilst we were here it rained most of the time, and there were a lot of waterfalls, I felt like I was back in Wales! But we made the most of it and went on a little hike nearby and stopped for tea at a little cafe at the top surrounded by clouds they call it the ghost of Baños!
The next day we explored Ecuador a bit more and went on the tren a la Nariz del Diablo . Just to do it really, we embarked the train in Alausi and returned there! It was a nice scenic ride though sitting on the roof dangling our feet over the edge! I´d heard that a couple of japanese tourists had been beheaded on this ride, or an alternative faster train, because they stood up on the roof to take a photo and got caught in overhanging wire or something similar and tragically died!
We travelled to Cuenca the next day and after an excursion or two and overindulging in a bit of yummy chocolate atalittle cafe! From here we travelled to the coast. We bumbed into another traveller we had met a couple of times quite randomly on our our bus to Guyaquil, the first time! Happens a lot on the gringo trail! Claire´s always good at remembering their names and I´m sooo rubbish! We wanted to experience a bit of the Galapagos so we went to the poor mans equivalent Ísla De Plata´. We were here in a good season, because we could watch some beautiful acrobatic Humpback Whales migrating! I tried to take some photos but they were a bit camera shy and I only really caught their splashes! On Isla de Plata we saw lots of seabirds like the blue footed boobies,the cutest and friendliest birds I have ever seen!! Also we saw the endangered Albatross. That night we travelled to Montanita, a relaxing little surf village with a no worries be happy vibe and fire jugglers etc in the street!Was a bit like a mini glastonbury! We could have stayed here for longer than just one night it was such a nice place to chill out for a few days. Claire and I got henna tatoos here, I had a sun on my wrist and Claire had a Benny on the back of her neck.
The next day we travelled to Guyaquil,again! A horrible polluted seaside city with the stupidest most confusing bus station ever! We went to the cinema while we were here, we always seem to go to the cinema in places we don´t really like, we saw the worst horror film here called the Hitcher, with Sean Bean! We caught our 19hour Ormeño bus to Peru, along the pan american highway from Guyaquil the next day. The border crossing was in a weird, limbo, dusty place! I always get excited when I have my passport stamped!.....
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