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I fell asleep on the bus and the man kicked me to wake me up. How rude?!???!?
Anyway....i went for the first hostal in the LP again. When i arrived the lady apologised and said she only had dorm rooms left. I was so pleased!!! Finally...grinko friends!! I had a choice of a 3 dorm or 5. I went for the 5. In my room are 2 Aussies a Brit and an American. Last night when i arrived they invited me for a night out. I havnt drank for...4 whole days so a night out is in order.
First we went to the hot springs. Wow....they are located next to a beautiful waterfall. We hopped from the freezing cold to the boiling hot and got to know eachother. The aussies are really funny and we clicked. Same sense of humour. After the hot springs we went out for dinner. Burger and chips lol (1.50usd) cant complain. Then we went to a bar. We got 2 free drinks inc a flaming shot. I was full up and drunk and i hadnt actually spent any money yet. Everytime i ordered a drink the barmen gave me a free shot of Tequila...dangerous. I dont know how but i ended up behind the bar playing DJ where i got more free drinks. When i wasnt behind the bar i had 2 guys from our group fighting for my attention and buying me drinks every chance they got. It was good times lol. Im not used to so much attention i began to feel uncomfortable. Still its good to play on it a little lol.
This morning i was up at 8 (didnt get to bed till gone 6) to go Rapelling. Its basically absailing down waterfalls. Nobody told me we had to hike to the waterfalls...i wasnt impressed lol. I was hanging. Ive trekked 50km at an altitude and was fine. I trekked 20 minutes thismorning and thrt i was going to pass out. I was sweating out rum. We were wearing our wetsuites with a jacket....wasnt cool. However when we got to the waterfalls it was awesome. We went down 5 falls each one getting bigger. The highest was about 20 metres, good job i was still drunk because i may have freaked otherwise, it was high!!! Our tour guide spoke broken English. The quotes he used mostly inc "open your legs" "come between my legs" "bend over" "put it in the holes" cracked me up.
This afternoon we were booked onto a bungy (15usd!!). It is to windy so they wouldnt allow us up. Secretly im relieved....lol im too fragile. Going to do it tomoro instead. Had a lovley lunch with the boys, they leave today. Tonight im doing dinner with 2 English girls and maybe afew drinkies. Its Ecuador day....whatever that means. There have been big parades in the streets and tonight is apparently going to be one big party. Im going to nap...it needs to be done.
Sam and i went to the hot springs. No stars this time, it rained. Sitting in hot springs in the rain was pretty cool. Sam is from the States and has been in South America for 3 years. In the last 10 months he has cycled from Asucion (Paraquay) to Banos in Ecuador and is cycling home to Arizona. How incredible is that??? He has worked in the Peace Core and helped save national parks in Bolivia. I need to sort my life out. He is so interesting and inspirational. I want to acheieve more in life after spending afew days with him. Last night there were huge festivals in town. We wondered around eating street food on various corners. Then we brt milk and chocolate and heated it up on the roof terrace of the hostal. He left today with another friend Matt. Matt is also American and knows the YMCA that i worked at in California. Such little things excite me lol. People come and go so fast while you are on the road. Most people you hang out with have an awesome time and thats that. There great people and you have an amazing time together but you know you wont stay in contact for to long. Then theres afew that you click with and become attached to.
Today i hired a bike and cycled 40km stopping at various waterfalls. Was good times cycling through the mountains, i got a cable car across the gorge. Halfway through the chain broke on my bike so i was pushing it a little while and got the bus back into town. I may be able to do my bungjy jump in an hour, if not ive lost my money on it. Witch. Its only 15bucks but thats still 3 nights accom and dinner!!
My Loki family (friends from Mancora) have just arrived and im leaving on a bus tonight!!!! Gutted...
Ok so...after being very excited to see my loki friends i was talked into spending another night. The guy (Edwardo) who runs the tour operating agency next door to us was like "im walking with you to the bus station, we are changing your ticket and you are partying with us tonight!"...what could i do??? We didnt manage to get the ticket changed but i decided to stay anyway. Memories outway money (no comments please dad and Pedrini). Staying was such a good move!!!! I had an amazing night out with team 321 (loki family = same ppl). The following day i was a tad hungover and was bored. My new roomy Warren (21 from Aus) and I decided spontaniously to go horse riding. Why not *shrugs*. We were riding for 2 hours through the mountians. Our guide took us on a route where the volcano in Banos errupted 2 years previous. We hiked along the lava trail. Warrens horse kept randomly walking off in the wrong direction it was soo very funny as he had no control over the horse. In the afternoon it was confirmed that we could do the bungy jump. Thats a lie...its not actually a bungy. Simular kind of thing but its not a bungy cord...just a rope. So you swing...instead of bounce. All very exciting untill you get there!!!! It was Myself Warren and 2 Americans Kadie and....ummmm......Kyle? Warren and i went for lunch an hour before...what were we thinking??? Warren went first and he was buzzing. I was next. They strap you in...tell you to stand on the edge of the bridge like its the most natural thing in the world and then explain you cant jump you have to dive. Are you having a laugh?? "On 3...uno....dos...tres..." Bridie freaks out and almost cries. Im arguing with myself because i know i HAVE TO DO IT. It´ll bother be forever if i dont. So i just....go. Fall to my death...nobody lives forever. The feeling after is incredible...usually. This time the harnes was cutting into....me. It hurt so bad i couldnt enjoy swinging. The following day i was briused :(. It was still worth it. So....i stayed an extra night, had an amazing night out followed by an exciting day. They all nagged for me to stay but i HAD TO leave. :( I had such an amazing time in banos. 9.5/10!!!- comments