Most inhabitants of Banos were evacuated in 2000 for several months because of the erupting volcano Tungurahua but apart from a few insignificant steaming fumaroles its not worth the night tour every agency offers. Instead we went to a nearby lookout but the volcano was surrounded by clouds and that was all we saw that day.
More impressive was our 61km bike ride to Puyo along Rio Pastaza dropping nearly 1000m into the Amazon Basin. Phil did his first swing jumping from a bridge on the way, we took a cable car 100m above the river to reach the other side of the valley, we saw beautiful waterfalls and got scared like hell by German Shepperd's. Following a path we accidentally entered a private property and got attacked by 3 vicious dogs. Phil was more switched on and kicked them in his defence. Petra tried to run away screaming, fell and got bitten a few times in her legs. After a few tears and Phil's caring attention she got over it and carried on walking back to the bicycles. We reached Puyo near before darkness, threw our bikes on top of a local bus and got driven back to Banos.
Staying in Banos you cant miss the thermal spas. Running around in your bathers from hot to warm to freezing cold pools at night is fun and the pub night after was even better,
More impressive was our 61km bike ride to Puyo along Rio Pastaza dropping nearly 1000m into the Amazon Basin. Phil did his first swing jumping from a bridge on the way, we took a cable car 100m above the river to reach the other side of the valley, we saw beautiful waterfalls and got scared like hell by German Shepperd's. Following a path we accidentally entered a private property and got attacked by 3 vicious dogs. Phil was more switched on and kicked them in his defence. Petra tried to run away screaming, fell and got bitten a few times in her legs. After a few tears and Phil's caring attention she got over it and carried on walking back to the bicycles. We reached Puyo near before darkness, threw our bikes on top of a local bus and got driven back to Banos.
Staying in Banos you cant miss the thermal spas. Running around in your bathers from hot to warm to freezing cold pools at night is fun and the pub night after was even better,
2 comments:
that sucks about the dogs, i hate dogs. hope the leg cleared up ok x
Same. I mean I don't hate dogs but obviously such vicious ones I don't like. Hope you are ok Petra. It doesn't look nice.
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