More Baños and Birthday

We left Saturday morning after seeing an amazing sunrise come up over the jungle. Good byes were sad but Nic and I were both ready to be moving on. Since Tuesday was my birthday we thought it would be nice to celebrate in Baños for the weekend. After checking in to our hostal I read an email that said we couldn´t start our next program till the week after. This was perfect because it gave us a chance to have some freedom and fun.

After a day we realize we were kind of over Baños but we had already paid for the next night and I was pretty set on having a nice dinner at Cafe Hood for my birthday. Right when things seemed at a stand still we met this guy who did rock climbing for only $15 (which was pretty cheap for the area). Without much thought we said yes. Everything worked out great and as a bonus he said we could go up for free the next day. It was a lot of fun but I still have bruises that make me look like a lepoard. Nic is set that its going to be his inland surfing.

There was some debate going on for a couple of days whether or not to head to the coast for a week. Nic was torn between his addiction of surf and saving money. After sometime he finally decided it was more economical to go for a hike instead. We set our sites for Quilotoa which is a huge crater in the Andes. This meant we were on a bus for the majority of my birthday but the dinner the night before was enough for me.

The first stop was Latacunga which is a pretty big city that tourist only go through on their way to the Quilotoa loop. Since there is only a couple of buses that leave a day we had to spend a night there. We werent that impressed by the city but we did have some cheap good food. The hostal was the first one we could fine because we were getting a lot of stares with our packs on. That night there was non stop noise coming from outside. QUITO QUITO QUITO and in the background spanish music that has the exact same beat for each song. It was a rough night for the both of us.

Ill post the rest soon....