Decided to have a nice relaxing day today to round out our stay in Baños, we were going to do the Quilotoa loop which takes you up to a crater lake inside the top of a volcano. Unfortunately this would have meant spending alot of money and hiking for 5 hours, neither of which we wanted to do. So we used the day to tie up a few loose ends. I burnt all my images so far onto CD and Kelly kept herself bust filling in, scanning and emailing a 9 page form from M...

Kelly had a ball today because when we woke up it was time to go... Horse Riding!! Which was actually a blast believe it or not. We went up the side of an active volcano, Tungurahua, that was grumbling as we were riding up it. Our guide to start with was a young boy of 13years called Andreas who was really cool and interested in the english name for everything like bull for toro and horse for caballo. Very fun time although by the end of the day i knew i had bee...

Got up with a slight hangover from the night before but it was well worth it. Was a little sad to leave The Secret Garden but i highly recommend it to anyone who goes to Quito. Caught a cab to Terminal Terrestre where we had KFC before we got on the bus to Banos which was another 3hr bus ride away on one of the crazy Ecuadorian buses. Beautiful scenery one again though. Banos is a great little tourist town nestled between volcanoes, including 1 active one, w...