Category: Ecuador
Baños
Why anyone would want to name a town after a toilet is beyond my understanding (probably because it Baños actually means baths and there are plenty of hot springs located about town..) but Baños is a quiet holiday town devoted to the local attractions: aforementioned hot springs, nearby waterfalls and canyons. For lack of any real plan of what to…
Cotopaxi
Several hours sitting in the back of a ute (on cushions for comfort of course..) sees us arrive at the Secret Garden in the large valley spread out below Cotopaxi. Cotopaxi is much like Kilimanjaro in that it’s a massive free standing volcanic cone, except that the valley we’re in now is already 3,500m asl. and so the mountain before…
Quito – It Begins..
30 hours and 4 flights after we set off we’ve finally arrived here in Quito, Ecuador – our first stop on what we hope is a round the world adventure. The rough plan is to spend the next 13 weeks making our way through South America before boarding a flight from Brazil to Frankfurt and then onto London. We’ve got…