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A full day
It started with a look around the city where there were lots of people throwing toffee to soften it. This place had lots of sugar and sweets. I
caught up with the english crew and organized some bikes for $6, we were not sure they hire them often but we took four bikes out of five. I returned mine as the back breaks didn't work and he explained the front ones worked fine.... Cheers mate but I'll take the other one.
We went to the same waterfalls Sarah visited so ill let you on on the other parts. We headed around all the tunnels however the last one was more difficult. We road past a very poor attempt to block the road and wondered why (reading Sarah's she said it was clearly marked, it did slow us). A little further down there was no road, just a large puddle and a large stack of debris. We had seen locals walking down here and they had gone so we thought about keeping the adventure alive and climb over it. The whole thing smelt like dead animals and animal s***.... And it quite possibly could have been. This is where Sarah said it was blocked, and she was right.
We had a laugh or two and headed on where we found the new entrance to the falls, and we thought it would be worth it for a dollar. We made a circle with our bikes and used the only bike lock the hire shop had to hold them together. From an interesting locking setup to to the walk, There was a very dodgy feeling in the air as we walked to the first lookout. This look out utilized the saplings and rope to hold people back.Hmmm, we started to feel better when we arrived at two large suspension bridges for us to cross. As we doubled back on ourselves we saw what we walked on earlier was still being built. The whole entrance was being completed or updated including some parts which looked like they had failed at some point in a landslide. That aside the lookout was incredible and we were within minutes of a large tour bus. We felt better as we were not just by ourselves now. From here we could see the other side of the falls and thought it would be worth entering there too, lets do it.
It was great fun and Sarah has already spoke of it, both sides were amazing, with one major difference, the new was drier but really close, the second was really wet.
We arrived back to town on a truck, ready to eat everything we could find and headed to the central market for a local dish and juice. Great food of rice, egg, avocado, chorizo, beef, tomato and onion salsa and a juice made from a local fruit, yellow with weird hard seeds in it, starting with g. Very odd but I liked it.
We returned to the hostel for a bit of a relax and some Spanish lesions where we decided to go to the baths at 6pm for the start of the night session. When we arrived it was amazingly overcrowded with one of the four pools not full of water. We started under one of the waterfalls but it was medium heat and had about 80% too many people. The pool was an experience but not as crazy as Japan. The weird parts were 1. some people clearly were just there for a perv, 2. being touched up by everyone who wanted to pass and 3. trying to get out. Downstairs was a much nicer pool, a boiling hot pool next to a freezing cold plunge pool. We alternated between these two and for some reason got quite dizzy in the cold pool. It was odd and came on after a feeling of smoking some ultra menthol cigarettes or something. Rupert and I went back to the hot while Helen (his girlfriend) held a rail to stop from falling over.
We had showers and left where we arrived back in time for free dinner of spag bol. We topped it off with beers, rums and great company. Before dinner I asked about busses to Montañita and it turns out there is a direct one, I asked after dinner too and it leaves at 2pm and takes 7 hours, this is great news!!
It all kept getting better as no one came into my room, so i had it all to myself, my spacious empty room.
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