Today was a fairly light day for adventures. Our biggest one was the rental of the dune buggy for an hour to ride around Baños.
Trust me, an hour was plenty. Baños isn´t very big, and this little hot rod isn´t very comfortable for our 53 year old bones! But it was fun to zip around, even if we probably didn´t get over 10 mph. It didn´t have a reverse gear, so twice we had to get out and push it back because we needed to turn around. We covered every road in Baños, and even got on the Pan-American Highway... for a few blocks.
After our dune buggy ride, we walked to the town´s waterfall:
As we got closer to the bottom of the falls, we saw the stairs (always stairs or a climb up in Ecuador!) around the base of the falls:
As Ecuadorian waterfalls go, this was a small cascade, but the townspeople or Ecuadorian (and American) tourists do come to take pictures of it. Next to the base of the waterfall were the public baths, with hot water coming from the mountain (remember, this is an active volcano area... Google ¨Tungurahua¨ and you´ll see what I mean).
These were the baths, full of people since today is Sunday. Baños is a weekend get-away for folks in Quito. We did not avail ourselves of the baths. Perhaps tomorrow if it isn´t as crowded.
I haven´t put a food picture or story in for a few days.... Here´s our lunch, which we sat in the park and ate:
It´s a bag with mote (the corn/hominy type vegetable) on the bottom, then roasted pork skin (think: cracklins´), topped with the marinated red onion salsa. The pork skins tasted like bacon, and the marinated red onion juice flavored the corn in the bottom of the sack. It´s a lunch portion for 50 cents, and the vendor provides the plastic spoon to eat it.
We still like our room and are getting the best sleep here that we´ve had in awhile as there are no car alarms or street noise to wake us in the middle of the night. I leave you with a picture of Phillip sitting on his bed, taken looking in from our open window:
Well I imagine you would have been glad to have your polaris from the ranch for your little jont around tomn there today, although that dune buggy didn't look too small.
ReplyDelete"Throat of Fire" or "Tongue of Fire" the translation depending on who or what your reading for the volcanoes name Tungurahua.
From what I read, your lucky the thing has not went off while ya'll are there. 16,500ft tall and one of eight active volcanoes in Ecuador.
The waterfall photos are awesome,and .50 cent lunches, wow hard to believe.Well keep having fun and,thanks for the pictures of Phillip.
See Ya, Your Cuz.
Yum, now that looks like a lunch I could enjoy! Do you plan to indulge in anymore guinea pigs, or was once enough for this trip? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe waterfalls look so pretty there, and that one is nothing like small by Texas standards! I'd love to be there when no one else was.... that would be truly awe-inspiring.
Uh-oh, separate beds, huh? Traveling driving a wedge?? ;-) Just teasing...it appears to be doing anything but that! Just one more way I find you two so inspiring. :-) Thanks for the great example!!